The Human Energy of S&C
Integrity, enthusiasm, sustained energy. These are the traits that S&C has always looked for and found when seeking people to join our 100% employee-owned team. S&C supports these qualities with a strong package of pay and benefits, excellent education and training programs, a challenging work environment, and broad opportunities for advancement.
Location: Chicago
Address of Location: 6601 N Ridge Blvd, IL, Chicago 60626
Education Requirements: Bachelor's Required
Relevant Work Experience Requirements: 6 to 10 Years
JOB SUMMARY
Grid Control and Connectivity with offices in Alameda, CA and Chicago, IL is responsible for best in class electricity Distribution Automation and Wireless Communication products and solutions, worldwide. Included in this position is the Software Architecture definition for intelligent embedded software devices related to evolving modernized grid cyber security initiatives.
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lead architecture and technical direction of product lines, incorporating cyber security.
- Collaborate with agile teams of Developers, QA, and Production Support to drive improvements.
- Ensure the technology objectives are aligned to the business goals and architectural consistency across the entire product.
- Conceive, prototype, and evangelize approaches for new software applications, including web, mobile, and server.
- Work with marketing and system architects to assure product designs meets current and future potential market cyber security requirements.
- Develop and contribute to the development of project schedules, task and project completion time estimates, detailed software specifications and associated device-level software architecture embodiments.
- Work collaboratively with upstream system architects and downstream software and testing engineers to deliver reliable, mission critical embedded software.
- Conduct and/or manage all necessary architecture embodiment work pertinent to system interfaces and device level software architecture design and test related to securing interfaces
- Strong experience with risk definition, quantification, and mitigation techniques
- Work with Application Engineers to ensure smooth integration into customer systems
To select this job as one of interest to you, at a minimum, you must have the following:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related fields. MS degree preferred.
- Experience with embedded operating systems such as uClinux, VxWorks, or custom kernels.
- Ten years of experience in the software architecture definition, design and development of real-time, mission critical embedded software.
- Understanding of NISTR 7628 guidelines and NERC-CIP initiatives.
- Experience with Role Based Administrative Control techniques, hardware security modules, and digital signature techniques
- Experience with securing wireless transceiver platforms, SoCs, and associated interfaces.
- Experience implementing and securing protocols over TCP/IP.
- Understanding of cryptographic primitives such as AES and public key cryptography.
- Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure, X.509 certificate structures, TLS and modern cipher suites
- Strong software architecture documentation, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time with rare periods lasting more than a week.
- US Citizenship.
In addition the following are desirable, but not required:
- Security+ or Certificate Information System Security Professional (CISSP), CSSLP, and/or ISC2 certifications.
- Experience with board level debug and logic analyzers.
- Experience writing device drivers such as I2C drivers.
- Java programming experience.
- Android mobile application development.
- RESTful API experience.
- Experience with secure elements and Java Card.
- Experience with DNP secure authentication or security for electric utility protocols.
- Familiarity with systems, protocols, and standards such as SCADA, MODBUS, and 61850 used in the utility industry
MAJOR PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Lifting: Occasional lifting of controls and test equipment, less than 50 pounds.
- Walking: Occasional walking throughout the facility.
- Carrying: Occasional carrying of light objects.
- Pushing: Infrequent pushing of objects, possibly related to rearrangement work.
- Pulling: Infrequent pulling of objects, possibly related to rearrangement work.
- Bending: Occasional bending during access to equipment.
- Reaching: Infrequent reaching.
- Handling: Frequent handling of parts or tools.
- Environment: Frequent use of personal computer, keyboard, and monitor, lab tools, etc.
Number of Openings: 1.00
Employment Status: Exempt
Employment Classification: Full Time
Shift: 1
Core Working Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
S&C Electric Company is a global provider of equipment and services for electric power systems. Founded in 1911, the Chicago-based company designs and manufactures switching and protection products for electric power transmission and distribution.
S&C's products help deliver electric power efficiently and reliably. Some are used to switch circuits. Others minimize damage to equipment in the event of a fault or reduce the area of an outage by automatically rerouting power flow; S&C's sophisticated power-quality products can deliver uninterrupted power for an entire facility, for crucial process industries.
In addition, S&C offers a wide range of engineering, laboratory, and testing services for electric utilities and commercial, industrial, and institutional power systems.
S&C provides solutions for customers worldwide. The company has engineering offices and manufacturing facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Franklin, Wisconsin; Alameda, California; Duvall, Washington; Rockville, Maryland; and Orlando, Florida. S&C subsidiaries operate in Toronto, Canada; Curitiba, Brazil; Mexico City and Aguascalientes, Mexico; Wales, United Kingdom; South Yarra, Australia; and Suzhou, China.
Thank you for your interest in S&C Electric Company. S&C has a proud and longstanding tradition of providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or marital status. Further, S&C is committed to taking affirmative action to ensure that qualified females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities can pursue equal employment opportunities. For information regarding equal employment opportunity, please see www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
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S & C Electric Company (Headquarters)
6601 North Ridge Boulevard
Chicago
Illinois United States
www.sandc.com
