SCADA​/ICS Systems Administrator - Active Secret Clearance Required

This is a hands-on operational technology job at a working Air Force installation. You will spend a large share of your week in mechanical rooms, equipment vaults, well sites and outdoor utility areas, in Tucson heat, with tools in your hands. There is genuine server, network and cybersecurity work in it. But if you are picturing a data center, a rack room or a desk, this is not that job.

We would rather tell you now than have you find out in month three.

Three hard gates, all required on day one:

• United States citizenship
• Active Secret clearance
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification in hand

That third one has no grace period. Personnel without current certification are denied access to DoD information systems, which means the job cannot be performed. We cannot hire on a promise to certify later.

Cyber Myte, LLC is the prime contractor for Facility Related Control Systems and Industrial Control Systems support at the 355th Civil Engineer Squadron, Davis-Monthan AFB. You would be the single Cyber Myte employee on this contract.

The 355th CES runs control systems across the installation: water systems, fire alarms, airfield lighting and energy management. You keep those systems running, secure and documented.

Roughly, and it varies week to week:

• About half your time is field work. Walking facilities, tracing faults, pulling and terminating cable, swapping hardware, standing at a panel with a laptop.
• About a third is systems and network administration. HMI workstations, SCADA servers, switches, segmentation, backups, patching, STIG hardening, account controls.
• The rest is documentation and coordination. Tickets, monthly reporting, inventory, and working across two squadrons to get things unblocked.

Because you are the only person onsite, you will often be the one deciding what matters most today.

• You like OT and industrial control work and you are comfortable being the only technical person in the room.
• You can run your own day from a standing task list without someone assigning you work each morning.
• You write things down without being asked.

• You want remote or hybrid. Telework is not authorized on this contract and we cannot make an exception.
• You want a pure server or cloud administration role.
• You want a large team around you. There is one of you onsite, plus company leadership by phone.

• Maintain, monitor and troubleshoot SCADA, PLC and Energy Monitoring and Control Systems across the installation.
• Diagnose and remediate EMCS outages, coordinating with the 355th CES and the 355th Communications Squadron for access, repair and verification.
• Conduct periodic physical walkthroughs and health checks of controlled facilities and equipment rooms.
• Document every work action in the Government work order system.

• Administer Windows-based HMI workstations running SCADA software.
• Develop, modify and maintain PLC ladder logic for facility systems including well systems, utility controls and environmental monitoring.
• Maintain automated logout and session management across all SCADA HMI systems per DISA requirements.
• Test every logic change in a controlled manner before deploying to production control systems.

• Maintain the SCADA network infrastructure including managed switches, cabling and network segmentation.
• Administer assigned servers and workstations, including builds, patching and backup verification.
• Keep segmentation between SCADA and enterprise networks maintained and documented.

• Maintain systems in compliance with DISA STIGs applicable toICS and SCADA.
• Conduct risk analyses and security tests for each system quarterly at minimum.
• Track and install required security patching and document completion.
• Report suspected cybersecurity incidents immediately.

• United States citizenship. No exceptions for on-installation federal contract work.
• Active Secret clearance.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification held on your first day. Security+CE is the most common route. CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA-Security and CND also qualify.
• Three or more years hands-on with industrial control systems, SCADA platforms or building automation in an operational environment.
• Direct PLC programming experience (Allen-Bradley, Siemens or equivalent) including ladder logic development and modification.
• Experience administering Windows-based HMI workstations running SCADA…