EMS Systems Analyst Sr

Job Duties

• Understands and apply principles, theories and concepts related to the profession and ERCOT's culture.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Impact is generally limited to specific assignments or projects.
• May respond to inquiries and/or provide assistance and/or guidance to lower-level workers.

Additional Job Duties

• Routinely monitors GMS systems and applications, as well as regular maintenance activities.
• Coordinates and performs database updates and upgrades in the GMS environments.
• Affords support to Operations Engineering, Market Operations, and other business units during acceptance testing of new and/or enhanced applications.
• Supports effective use and administration of GMS systems and applications by preparing and reviewing technical documentation.
• Performs patch implementations and migrations in the GMS systems.
• Performs system setup and testing with Market Participants as appropriate.
• Responds to system failures and operator questions on a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Works with market participants to resolve problems and implement changes.
• Performs emergency recovery and troubleshooting of GMS systems and applications.
• Provides 24x7 technical support for GMS systems on a rotational basis.
• Responsible for the integration of GMS systems and applications, monitoring, and regular maintenance of the GMS systems’ environments and derived systems.
• Responsible for planning, deploying, and managing containerized GMS applications utilizing CI/CD integration tools.

Senior – Above +

• Performs systems maintenance and improvement activities to support the effectiveness of the GMSParticipates in planning and evaluating the impact of system modifications and maintenance activities.
• Plans, deploys, and supports containerized GMS applications utilizing CI/CD integration tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Jfrog and Github etc.).
• Enhance GMS systems and application monitoring utilizing various monitoring tools to improve GMS systems’ reliability.
• Trains and supports users on all aspects of the GMS and related applications.
• Participate in industry meetings and discussions related to GMS technologies to maintain and expand knowledge that is applied on the job.
• May provide training or oversee the work of less experienced systems analyst.
• Acts as mentor and advisor to less experienced engineers/analysts.
• Participates with other ERCOT departments to select and implement system changes as needed.

Required Experience

• Level 2 Analyst: Requires minimum 1 year job-related work experience in excess of degree requirements. Requires minimum 1 year related work experience in one of the following areas: Energy Management System (EMS)/ICCP/SCADA, Market Management System (MMS), Outage Management Systems, Linux OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, OSI soft PI, or creating dashboards on Linux/Windows Platforms.
• Level 3 Analyst: Requires minimum 3 years’ job-related work experience in excess of degree requirements. Requires minimum 3 years related work experience in one of the following areas: Energy Management System (EMS)/ICCP/SCADA, Market Management System (MMS), Outage Management Systems, Linux OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, OSI soft PI, or creating dashboards on Linux/Windows Platforms.
• Senior Level Analyst: Requires a minimum of 5 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements. Requires minimum 5 years related work experience in one of the following areas: Energy Management System (EMS)/ICCP/SCADA, Market Management System (MMS), Outage Management Systems, Linux OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, OSI soft PI, or creating dashboards on Linux/Windows Platforms.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (Required)
• Master's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (Preferred)

Skills

• Programming Languages/Packages/Scripting: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting
• Operating System: Windows, Linux
• Database: Oracle, SQL Server
• Source Code Control Tools: Git, GitHub
• CI/CD Tools (Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Jfrog etc.)
• Change Management and Defect Tracking Tools – Jira, qTest etc.

Salary and Level

Salary and level will be based on overall experience as determined by ERCOT. Expected Salary Range $109,000 - $150,000