SCADA / OSI Monarch Power Platform Lead Solution Engineer

Title: SCADA / OSI Monarch Power Platform Lead Solution Engineer
JobID #: JP00010519
Company: American Utilities Company
Pay Rate: $69.00/Hour
Position Type: 6 mo Contract with extensions
Location: Applicants must reside in any one of the following AEP footprint states:

Ohio (Columbus -preferred), Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, or West Virginia

100% remote

Description:

Specific responsibilities include:
- Support OSI-Monarch's Power System Applications including Automatic Generation Control (AGC)
- Supports and troubleshoots the operational SCADA environment as well as insuring optimized monitoring and system reliability reporting
- Maintains Monarch custom DB configurations
- Depending on ability: Able to provide on rotation, after hours (24 x 7) on-call support
Basic Qualifications :
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
Experience: 10 years of relevant work experience is required.
An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of verifiable experience in supporting the OSI Monarch SCADA systems
- Understanding of NERC CIP security principals;
- Understanding of WAN and VPN concepts
- Basic understanding of C programming language
- Knowledge of Communnication Protocols (DNP3, Modbus, ICCP)
- Understanding of Ladder Logic desired
- Knowledge of RTU (Remote Terminal Units)
General:
Part of a larger team delivering high quality technology solutions to the business. Design, develop and install software solutions. Build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with internal architecture, development & design standards & best practices. Design, modify, develop, write, implement and troubleshoot software programming applications. Support and/or install software applications. Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software. Works within a Waterfall or Agile methodology/framework based team. Collaborates heavily with Project Management, Business Analyst and Infrastructure Job Families.

Essential Job Functions & Tasks :

Works independently. Responsibilities include one or more of the following for the largest and most complex projects:

Develops advanced solutions to resolve customer and prospective customer issues in a logical, creative and structured manner.
Align the client's goals, needs and objectives to the solutions.
Communicate issues and status in a clear, timely manner.
Interpret specifications and build advanced solutions to those specifications.
Collaborate on the business strategy by acting as an expert of the company's services and products, including usage, architecture, functionality and deployment.
Develop custom presentations and demonstrations for all audiences.
Generates infrastructure support documentation.
Make proposals and writes request for proposal (RFP) responses.
Evaluate and propose advanced process improvements.
Maintain expert knowledge about the company's software/hardware products.
May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.
Remarks:

REMOTE: Candidates local to the Columbus OH area preferred, but will consider remote candidates in the Company s footprint sates:

Potential to convert Company does not sponsor. Conversion never guaranteed. Please list if candidate is willing/able to convert on the top of the resume. Resumes without this info WILL be rejected at the loss of a sub spot.