DirectClient: City of Austin D/B/A Austin Energy
Solicitation#DAG2207
Title: Network Engineer
Location: 4815 Mueller Boulevard, Austin, Texas
Duration: Until 9/30/2022 with possible extension upto 9/30/2023
Last date for submission: January 11, 2021 (9.00 AM-CST)
Note: Remote allowed until COVID-19 situation settles.
WORK DESCRIPTION:
Austin Energy seeks an IT Network Consultant to provide overall network engineering and support for our Operations Technology (OT) systems located at Austin Energy’s Power Plants. OT systems can include Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s) as well as associated data historians (OSI PI). The consultant’s job duties include designing, documenting, and building OT network solutions; maintaining various network components; using experience to recommend new technologies and solutions– all in adherence with NERC/CIP standards. This position requires on-call support for 24-hour utility operations, travel to different sites to survey, troubleshoot, and integrate network solutions.
The primary duties of the position:
1. Operation and administration of OSIsoft Plant Information system/historian
2. Firewall configuration and rule set programming with Juniper Network equipment or equal
3. Protocol analysis using one or more network analyzers
4. Knowledge of Operating Systems, such as Microsoft and Unix, Linux and Networking equipment
5. Knowledge of installing, maintaining, and using unshielded twisted pair and fiber optic cable technologies.
6. TCP/IP network architecture
7. Industrial Firewall management
8. Industrial Managed switch operation
9. Offline Microsoft Operating System Patch Management Experience with RS232 communication Protocol
10. Act as SME for related NERC/CIP compliance and audit efforts
11. Provide collaborative input to infrastructure planning and design
12. Present findings to key stakeholders
13. Travel to and from different work sites to perform work, as needed
14. Disaster Recovery Method Planning and Implementation (including Bare Metal, RAID, etc.)
WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum (Required):
Years Skills/Experience
10 years Experience in administration of routing and switching, storage environments, and firewalls
Preferred (Optional):
Years Skills/Experience
3+ years JUNOS Experience – Juniper Certifications, or have worked on Juniper Equipment
3+ years OSI PI Historian Experience
3+ years Experience in NERC/CIP compliance with concentration on documentation and audit-ability
5+ years Experience with Disaster Recovery Method Planning and Implementation (including Bare Metal, RAID, etc.)
3+ years Operations Technology network experience – networking various controls systems (distributed controls systems, PLC’s, Historians, etc.)
Desired certifications:
Microsoft Certified System Administrator or equal
CISCO Certified Network - CCNA, CCNP, LPIC-3, with additional Linux and/or IT security
Certifications
JUNOS Certified Network - (JNCIA, JNCIS-SEC, JNCIS-ENT)