Control Systems Engineer III - V (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Focus)

About the role

Be part of the Control Systems Engineering team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and securing the infrastructure and tools that support Grant County PUD’s operation of the Bulk Electric System (BES).

Responsibilities

• Interact with, configure and maintain firewalls, virtual machine platforms, network switches, protocol converters, servers, workstations, and storage.
• Maintain infrastructure and security software including IDS, Active Directory, DNS, anti-virus, malware detection, vulnerability scanners, baseline management, backup and recovery, remote access, and multi-factor authentication.
• Implement and maintain Grant PUD’s monitoring, alerting, and reporting tools.
• Maintain and operate cyber systems to identify, detect, protect, respond, and recover from cyber threats and incidents.
• Ensure technologies and procedures comply with all Grant PUD's internal computing control requirements, cyber related legislations, industry regulation and guidance (NERC CIP, FERC) and all other Federal, State, and Local regulations.
• Develop, implement, maintain, automated cyber security controls.
• Implement ideas to improve processes based on lessons learned over time in performing assigned duties.
• Develop and employ scripts, cookbooks, checklists, and other tools/methods to automate tasks and enable efficient and repeatable outcomes of operational security controls.
• Become familiar with the applications supported by GMS, EMS and EAS team members.
• Work with other team members to diagnose and resolve communications and data issues related to application communication, telemetry and infrastructure.
• Support procurement and contract management processes to obtain hardware, software, and contract labor support.
• Facilitate vendor support by onboarding contractors with our processes and addressing needs to keep work flowing.

Requirements

• Engineer III: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology or 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree. Three (3) to Six (6) years of experience in maintaining infrastructure (hardware and management applications) providing 24x7 support of critical operations.
• Engineer IV: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology or 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree. Six (6) or more years of experience in maintaining infrastructure (hardware) providing 24x7 support of critical operations, with at least three of those years supporting medium or high North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulations.
• Engineer V: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology or 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree. Ten (10) or more years of experience in maintaining infrastructure (hardware) providing 24x7 support of critical operations, with at least seven of those years supporting medium or high North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulations.

Qualifications

• Engineer III: A Washington State Engineering in Training. Utility experience. Knowledge of North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulations.
• Engineer IV: Professional Engineer (PE).
• Engineer V: Supervisory or team lead experience. Professional Engineer (PE).

Skills

• Knowledge of NERC standards and regulations.
• Knowledge of concepts, principles, theories, and methods surrounding electrical engineering industry standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of data processing sufficient to be able to review program specifications, design programs and write or modify software code.
• Knowledge of common application development patterns, including, but not limited to, Software Engineering best practices for all applicable technology, client-server architecture, service applications, object-oriented, and object-based software design.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to independently adapt, interpret, and apply written guidelines, precedents, and standardized work practices to a variety of unprompted situations.

Benefits

This link below will provide you with Grant PUD’s benefit that may be available if hired, different employee types are eligible for different benefits. Grant PUD — Unified Insurance Program (uip-wa.org)

Pay

• Engineer III: $104,822 - $177,107
• Engineer IV: $112,585 - $192,317
• Engineer V: $130,666 - $228,062

Schedule

Not specified