Energy Management System Technical Administrator

Position Description

Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

System Reliability, transit electrification, and grid modernization initiatives within City Light require an expanding footprint of Operational Technology (OT) Systems and qualified personnel to support them. This position offers an opportunity to engage with a diverse base of technologies to solve problems and design systems that steer City Light towards its Energy Future.

The position of Energy Management Systems Technical Administrator will engage in day‑to‑day operations and maintenance of the SCL Energy Management System (EMS), as well as participate in project work to implement strategic computer technologies that will help modernize the SCL power grid operations with enhanced intelligence, automation, and decision making. This position will report to the Supervisor of Energy Delivery Systems of the Power System Automation (PSA) Unit in the System Operations Center.

The PSA Energy Delivery Technology Application Team Provides Technical Application And Infrastructure Support For The SCL Energy Management System (EMS) And Supporting Technology. The EMS Is a Highly Available, Secure Computer System That Allows For Remote Monitoring And Control Of SCL Power Generation, Transmission, And Distributions Systems. The Candidate Will Frequently Collaborate With Members Of The Greater PSA Team, System Operations, Engineers, And Communications Electricians To Solve System Issues And Complete Project Work.

This Position Will Engage With The Following Technologies And Protocols

• OSII Monarch SCADA/EMS/AGC
• ICCP
• RTU Communication protocols: DNP3 Telegyr 8979, Modbus
• EIDE
• C Programming Language
• Linux, CLI
• OSISoft PI
• Postgre
  
  SQL and Oracle database management systems
• SEL RTAC
• OSII Sentinel
• Future Seattle Electrification Strategy, including: AMI, Micro-Grid, Renewables, Storage, Advanced Distribution Management Systems, and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems

• Contribute to the development of high‑quality design standards and support processes for:
  • High availability, redundancy and operational continuity.
  • Quality assurance to ensure that as‑built changes meet design standards.
  • Ensuring compliance with NERC CIP regulatory standards.
• Interface with OT infrastructure stakeholders, users, and partner teams to ensure:
  • Monitoring, logging, notifying and reporting on reliable system operations and problem resolution.
  • Preparation and execution of test procedures in accordance with change management processes.
  • Maintaining system documentation, performance metrics and reports.
  • Maintaining compliance with NERC CIP regulatory standards.
  • Liaison with other operational technology providers (e.g. power plants, substations, data network communications, regulatory compliance, Seattle IT, industry vendors and consultants).
• Contribute to the development and deployment of system changes that include:
  • OT infrastructure, operating system, and application patches and upgrades.
  • Configure, test and deployment to servers and workstations.
  • Hardware, software and data recovery
  • System interfaces, performance and reports with vendor supported software.
• Participate in 24x7 call‑out support rotation.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, or a closely related field, or a combination of education and relevant work experience that provides an equivalent background required to perform the work.

Experience: Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience working in an Energy Management System, Operational Technology, or SCADA environment, preferably in an electric utility. Recent college graduates who have a career interest in electric utility operation and have examples of completing automation type projects using Linux based platforms,…