PI Software Specialist

Eliassen Group; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting company is seeking a PI Software Specialist to join the PI Delivery & Support Team. This remote role involves providing performance optimization and monitoring for Aveva PI systems. Candidates should have at least five years of experience in relevant areas and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. This position offers a competitive hourly rate and benefits for eligible employees.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

$1,000 referral program

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with the installation, configuration, and monitoring of Aveva PI System.
• Experience as a system administrator of Aveva PI System.
• Experience with performance optimization and monitoring system health.

Responsibilities

• Provide performance optimization and system health monitoring.
• Support installation, configuration, and monitoring of PI system servers.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive techniques.

Skills

Aveva PI System

Performance optimization

System administration

Root cause analysis

Technical support documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related discipline

Job description

Overview

PI Software Specialist — Anywhere • Contract • Energy

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -072025-102869 • Date Posted: 09/12/2025

Description

This position is for an Application Analyst SME working on the PI Delivery & Support Team. The PI Delivery & Support Team creates, implements and supports IT application enhancements, integrations and new data products for the Aveva PI vendor software suite and tools used across the Duke Energy Enterprise.

Note: Rate: $60 - $65 / hr. w2. W2 consultants receive a benefits package including medical, dental and vision, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities

• Provide performance optimization and system health monitoring in support of compliance with overall health and availability targets for production systems.
• Provide installation, configuration, and monitoring support for the PI system servers, the application operating systems, interfaces, and client tools on end user workstations.
• Create, monitor, and provide maintenance for PI system tags.
• Provide monitoring and maintenance support for system security, deployment of patches, file backups, system restoration, and password management.
• Perform root cause analysis along with recommending and implementing preventive techniques as required.
• Develop and maintain effective application technical support documentation including procedures.
• Support the evaluation of operating system upgrades and changes to support tools, including support testing.
• Work directly with vendors and IT entities to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Ensure issues are properly documented, classified and escalated as appropriate.
• Support the analysis of business processes, information gathering, interpreting requirements, developing specifications, and implementing process workflows, including routing and approvals.

Experience Requirements

• Five or more years of experience with the installation, configuration, and monitoring of Aveva PI System servers, interfaces, and user tools.
• Five or more years of experience as a system administrator of Aveva PI System.
• Five or more years of experience with Aveva PI System tag creation, tag monitoring, and tag maintenance.
• Five or more years of experience with performance optimization and monitoring system health for the Aveva PI System.
• Three or more years of experience with PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework, PI Asset Analytics, PI Event Frames, PI Vision, and PI Notifications.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline; or five years of related business work experience in lieu of a degree.

Note: Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for benefits including medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time as required by law in the state/locality of work.

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About Eliassen Group: Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions with 30+ years of experience across technology, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Don’t miss our referral program! If we hire a candidate you refer, you may be eligible for a $1,000 referral check.