Senior Real-Time Grid Operations Engineer

Georgia System Operations Corporation; Tucker (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia System Operations Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for the Energy Control System and critical applications supporting real-time grid operations. You will direct on-call and emergency actions, oversee security, backups, and system availability across ECS environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep EMS/SCADA knowledge, strong judgement, and experience in Unix, Windows, and network systems, with professional engineering credentials and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Ten years of on-call software and hardware support for a utility Energy Management System.
• Four years of software development experience with increasing responsibility for the continuous operation of developed software.
• Strong experience supporting and administering systems in Unix, Windows NT, and IP-based network environments.
• Professional Engineer certification, Bulk Electric System Cyber Authorized status, and NERC Reliability Standard Personnel Risk Assessment status.
• Excellent organizational, customer and team communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead restoration and recovery for ECS hardware, software, applications, and data.
• Direct associates, contractors, and vendors to maximize ECS availability during urgent resolutions.
• Manage security devices, firewalls, and external connections protecting ECS systems and data.
• Coordinate with ECS administrators to support compliance with security policies.
• Monitor ECS for electronic intrusion and coordinate cyber security communications if events occur.
• Manage backup processes for ECS data, servers, and applications for timely recovery.
• Recommend hardware, software, monitoring tools to support ECS reliability and maintainability.
• Provide configuration and system support for ECS applications (ICCP, PNA, AGC, EDC, PI Historical Archive Server, Dispatcher Training Simulator).
• Manage, develop, administer, and tune ECS systems to meet performance and security objectives.
• Mentor System Operators and GSOC staff on ECS applications.
• Coordinate installation of security patches, software upgrades, and hardware upgrades.
• Review software changes, test plans, and software promotion requests.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer certification

NERC Reliability Standard Personnel Risk Assessment status

Bulk Electric System Cyber Authorized status

Unix/Linux administration experience

On-call software/hardware support experience for utility EMS

Software development experience for continuous operation of developed software

Tools

AIX

SQL

Oracle

XML/COM/DCOM

Rational Rose

UML

PI Historical Archive Server

ICCP/AGC/EDC/Dispatcher Training Simulator

Job description

Georgia System Operations Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for the Energy Control System and critical applications supporting real-time grid operations. You will direct on-call and emergency actions, oversee security, backups, and system availability across ECS environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep EMS/SCADA knowledge, strong judgement, and experience in Unix, Windows, and network systems, with professional engineering credentials and