EMS Automation Engineer (24x7 Linux/Windows)

Southern Company; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Southern Company Services is seeking a skilled IT operations engineer to support EMS/SCADA systems (OSI Monarch) for Birmingham/Atlanta. You will administer Linux and Windows servers using Ansible, build automation playbooks, and collaborate with multiple teams to drive reliability and security.

The role requires strong scripting, automation, and incident management capabilities, with on-call duties and occasional travel. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Experience supporting enterprise computer systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24x7 operational support for EMS/SCADA systems (OSI Monarch) and related tools.
• Administer Linux and Windows servers via Ansible and vendor-provided solutions.
• Develop, test, and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, deployments and tasks.
• Collaborate with infra, cybersecurity, networking, cloud and application teams.
• Document automation processes and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Support disaster recovery, system maintenance and on-call duties.
• Travel 10–15% and adhere to CIP/ITP security requirements.

Skills

Windows administration

Hardware & virtualization

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/SSH)

Ansible automation

Automation of provisioning/config

CI/CD integration

Git & code reviews

Monitoring & incident tools

Security & compliance concepts

Collaboration across teams

Disaster recovery support

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Ansible

GitHub

Veeam

RPM/Yum

SCCM

Zenoss

ArcSight

Remedy

Job description

Southern Company Services is seeking a skilled IT operations engineer to support EMS/SCADA systems (OSI Monarch) for Birmingham/Atlanta. You will administer Linux and Windows servers using Ansible, build automation playbooks, and collaborate with multiple teams to drive reliability and security.

The role requires strong scripting, automation, and incident management capabilities, with on-call duties and occasional travel. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate.