Control System Integration Specialist

About the role

The Control System Integration Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring a robust, secure, and highly compliant Control Systems infrastructure. This position involves driving the proactive health and validation of hosted environments, architecting representative test sandboxes, executing rigorous patch validations, and defining observability requirements and actionable alert thresholds. The role also entails partnering closely with Engineering and Technical Support teams to maintain resilience, security, and readiness for the mission.

Responsibilities

• Diagnostics Escalation: Act as the technical backstop for challenging Control System anomalies. Troubleshoot at the OS level, including services, registry, permissions, and deep log analysis, to resolve complex OS-to-application failures.
• Surgical Patch Execution & Lab Testing: Build and govern representative lab sandboxes. Use these environments to safely deploy, execute, and validate monthly OS updates, configuration changes, and third-party patches against fragile OT applications.
• Proactive Drift Management & Maintenance: Ensure the CS infrastructure is constantly humming. Monitor and optimize underlying Windows OS configurations, using hands-on expertise to correct configuration drift before it degrades mission capability.
• Knowledge Sharing: Translate fixes into actionable runbooks. Close the loop with the NOC team after escalations to ensure issues are caught early.
• Process Design & Enablement: Establish strict protocols for STIG implementation and monthly patch validation. Write detailed runbooks to enable Technical Support to handle routine maintenance effectively.
• The Engineering SME: Act as a trusted consultant to capability teams. Provide deep Control System expertise to help them build robust ingestion algorithms, understand legacy protocol quirks, and enable rapid tuning of data.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in Windows Systems Engineering or advanced Systems Administration, specifically supporting complex, multi-server Control System environments.
• Hands-on Internals Expertise: Strong practical ability to troubleshoot at the OS level, resolve STIG compliance conflicts via CLI/PowerShell, and translate complex, legacy hardware/software limitations into actionable design advice.
• Consultative Mindset: Proven ability to translate complex, legacy hardware/software limitations into actionable design advice for engineering teams.
• Lab/Test Environment Architecture: Experience building and using representative test environments to reproduce field issues and execute patch validation.
• C clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD NIPR account and CAC; must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.