Job Description

Job Description:

Provides technical support and performs system administration and maintenance activities to support the GE’s Energy Management System (EMS) and its ancillary systems and applications, Hitachi Energy’s Sable application and Outage Scheduler application, Resource Innovation’s CRR application. Participates in planning and evaluating the impact of system modifications and maintenance activities to Grid and Market operations. Maximizes systems uptime and mitigates system failures. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve all applications.

JOB DUTIES

• Primarily responsible for support, system administration, and maintenance of the EMS and Sable applications and systems through the various testing cycles.
• Responsible for the integration of various EMS, Sable, OS, CRR applications, monitoring, and regular maintenance.
• Performs various kinds of structured/unstructured testing and logs defects in the defect tracking tool.
• Works closely with the business lead, project manager and technical lead by providing timely updates and feedback.
• Works closely with the Applications Engineering teams to get the defect fixes, releases installed across various testing environments.

ADDITIONAL JOB DUTIES MAY INCLUDE

• Routinely monitors EMS, Sable, OS, CRR systems and applications, as well as regular maintenance activities.
• Coordinates and performs Database updates and upgrades.
• Assist Operations Engineer, Market Operations, and other business units during application acceptance testing of new and/or enhanced applications.
• Supports effective use and administration by preparing and reviewing technical documentation.
• Performs patch implementation and migrations.
• Performs system setup and testing with Market Participants as appropriate.
• Responds to system failures and operator questions on a 24/7 basis.
• Works with market participants to resolve problems and implement changes.
• Performs emergency recovery and troubleshooting of all the system and applications.
• Maintains real-time data collection to support EMS and Market functions.
• Maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs the systems, applications, and interfaces.
• Proactively identifies design problems and drives resolution
• Participates in Disaster Recovery Drills
• Tests, certifies, and implements changes to the Production and Test
• Performs systems maintenance and improvement activities to support the effectiveness of the all the applications.
• Participates in planning and evaluating the impact of system modifications and maintenance activities.

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of work experience in system administration on Linux Operating systems and working experience with RDBMS (Oracle/SQL DB)
• Preferred system administration experience in GE EMS Suite, Hitachi Energy’s Sable, OS, Resource Innovations’ CRR application. If not, other EMS vendor experience such as Hitachi/ABB, Siemens, OSI, GE Power On Reliance.
• Experience with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)/Inter Control-Center Communication Protocol (ICCP)

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Required)
• Master's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Preferred) or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required

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