OT Network Engineer — SCADA & Industrial Security

AbilityLinks; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

On-site work four days a week

Job summary

Southern Company Services seeks an OT Network Engineer to design and implement secure OT network infrastructure across generation facilities. You will support SCADA, DCS, historians and vendor systems, applying cybersecurity requirements and NERC CIP controls while coordinating with multiple teams.

The role involves configuring switches/routers, performing testing, supporting outages, and maintaining comprehensive network documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred; associate degree or certs considered.
• Typically 3–5 years of progressively responsible network engineering or admin experience.
• OT/industrial control, SCADA, utility, power-generation or critical-infrastructure experience preferred.
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls; DNP3, Modbus, OPC, ICCP, historian connectivity, data diodes, RTAC preferred.
• Network automation or scripting experience preferred.
• Relevant Cisco, Palo Alto, networking or cybersecurity certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design standardized OT network architectures for control systems, SCADA, DCS, historians and vendor systems.
• Engineer routing, switching, segmentation, firewalls, redundancy and secure remote access.
• Configure, install, test and commission switches, routers and firewalls at generation sites.
• Support factory/site acceptance testing, cutovers, outages, replacements and project turnover.
• Troubleshoot outages and degraded communications with end-to-end analysis.
• Execute changes with planning, risk review, validation, rollback, documentation and closure.
• Apply Generation cybersecurity requirements and NERC CIP controls to OT networks.
• Maintain diagrams, IP records, firewall docs, configurations and inventories.
• Partner with plant personnel, project teams, cybersecurity, OEMs and vendors.
• Provide escalation support and participate in after-hours or on-call rotation.

Skills

Ethernet

TCP/IP

Subnetting

DNS

DHCP

VLANs

LAN/WAN design

Routing

Switching

VPNs

Redundancy

Network security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Networking, or related field

Associate degree or relevant certifications

Tools

Cisco routing & switching

Enterprise/industrial firewalls

Palo Alto firewalls

Wireshark

Networking automation/scripting

Job description

Southern Company Services seeks an OT Network Engineer to design and implement secure OT network infrastructure across generation facilities. You will support SCADA, DCS, historians and vendor systems, applying cybersecurity requirements and NERC CIP controls while coordinating with multiple teams.

The role involves configuring switches/routers, performing testing, supporting outages, and maintaining comprehensive network documentation.