Job Title: IT Systems Engineer III
Location: Oakland, CA
Account Manager Notes
Required to be ONSITE 2-3 days per week
Department Overview
IT supports the Gas and Electric Control Centers by improving service quality, increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technology, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.
Position Summary
Seeking an experienced IT System Engineer for the DERMS application platform. A strong applicant will be an expert on Commissioning and Interoperability of 2030.5 field devices with Hybrid Cloud environments and API integrations. The role will be responsible for the commissioning of DERMS sites and the associated application maintenance and support.
Responsibilities
- Commissioning and Interoperability activities:
- Oversight and Accountability for schedule execution for Grid DERMS Flex Connect site commissioning from the point of signed customer contract through SCADA release letter.
- Issue resolution for schedule changes during the commissioning period.
- Coordinate with distribution operations engineers for their review of key customer deliverables like single line diagrams, and control scheme documentation.
- Coordinate with Schneider Electric for inputs to feeder forecasting (SCADA, weather, M&V data) for control site implementation as well as feeders of interest for related programs like Demand Response, and City of San Jose build out.
- Coordinate with Schneider Electric, the aggregator/2030.5 vendor, DOEs, and IT support for site systems testing, and commissioning activities.
- Coordinate with ADMS SCADA Specialist Teams and/or their delegate, to complete ICCP Mappings in a timely manner
- Coordinate with Distribution Operations Engineers to get implementation sign-off and SCADA release letters completed.
- Provide overview, scheduling, and project support for existing and new vendors who wish to complete interoperability testing. Accountability for keeping the interoperability testing in compliance and on track with SQCDM requirements.
- Maintenance & Support activities:
- Provide primary technology Level 1 support for the DERMS platform. Able to investigate and troubleshoot issues working with the vendor and other IT departments.
- Triage open support cases and own resolution with internal SMEs and external vendor partners.
- Manage and deploy vendor application updates (patches, hotfixes) along with system level upgrades.
- Manage and support data refresh and application configurations for production and non-production environments.
- Operate/Maintain system integrations - DERMS Exporter / Weather API / GIS API / ADMS API / Apigee Gateway / ESFT / Single Sign-On & IAM / additional REST API and Pub/Sub to-be interfaces.
- Participate in product testing and platform documentation.
- Design and deploy enhancements to existing systems ensuring compatibility and interoperability.
Qualification
Minimum:
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Business, or equivalent experience
- 5 years of IT experience with enterprise Software application platforms.
- Expert with 2030.5 protocol and DER field devices
- Expert with operation or management of Hybrid Cloud environments
- Experience managing application certificates and authentication/authorization mechanisms.
- Minimum Architecture experience, able to understand system and network diagrams.
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) using PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate.
- API integration experience – REST API / Enterprise Secure File Transfer / MuleSoft CloudHub / Application Gateway (Apigee)
Desired
- At least 2-5 years Electric utility background (distribution or transmission systems preferred)
- Awareness and good familiarity with tools / applications regularly used by electric distribution or transmission system Operators, Operating Engineers, and Planning Engineers such as: SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), Distribution Management System (DMS), Power Flow modeling tools (e.g., CYME), Geographic Information System (GIS), operational data historian (e.g., OSISoft PI)
- Azure Fundamentals cloud certification.
- Implementation and support experience with hybrid cloud environments
- Ability to be creative, versatile, efficient, and productive in the face of ambiguity.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to work in a collaborative environment and interact with all levels of management with internal and external stakeholders.
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