Summary
We ae looing to hire an experienced critical infrastructure data center senior network engineer. This role is responsible for working on a team that supports energy management and advanced distribution system application network infrastructure. As a Senior Network Engineer on the Grid Management System Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for helping design, maintain, support, and life cycle existing and new network infrastructure devices that reside in a high security environment. The ideal candidate will have obtained a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certificate and have multiple years of experience trouble shooting, maintaining, and supporting Cisco devices and networks.
What You'll Do
- Work within operational technology grid management system infrastructure, security, and compliance team through hardware lifecycles and cutover migrations while minimizing impacts to production.
- Focus on leading the optimization of multi-site infrastructure redundancy that support the Energy Management System and Advanced Distribution Management System applications.
- Works within governance of infrastructure administration and provides peer review of work performed by the grid management system infrastructure team, outside consultants, and third-party vendors.
- Prepares and conducts reports and presentations for all areas of network infrastructure that the team supports.
- Maintain and enhance cyber security frameworks and IT governance plans while remaining NERC-CIP compliant for all responsible network infrastructure areas.
- Create, review, and update process documents, network diagrams, and all other relevant documentation for compliance, knowledge transfer, and historical purposes.
- Recommends solutions to new and complex network problems, while developing innovative strategies to evaluate the potential impact of changes.
- Perform on-call duties on a 24/7 call-out rotation.
- Diagnose and fix network technical issues on all levels of criticality and perform post issue root cause analysis if necessary.
- Supports a positive working environment through learning, educating, and collaborating with fellow team members and other SRP departments.
What It Takes To Succeed
- Professional registration and completion as required by the stated hiring requirements for education and experience. Industry technical and network certifications needed: CCNA and CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Data Center, or CCNP Security
- Have knowledge to implement, support, and trouble shoot IP network infrastructure technologies such as L2/L3 switching, network routing, network and server load balancing, and network security.
- Demonstrate familiarity with network automation, monitoring tools, access control, DNS, network domains, security frameworks, and network architectures.
- Administration of multi-site environments running on Nexus data center switches with vPC redundancy on a spine and leaf architecture.
- Diagnose and resolve critical outages on operational technology networks under high pressure and during all hours of the day, if needed.
- Understand cyber security recovery processes in the event of compromise and execute associated disaster recovery procedures.
- Understanding of NERC-CIP compliance standards and associated requirements a plus.
- Ability to perform multiple assignments concurrently while under stress.
- Foster positive working relationships with all levels of employees at SRP and OT.
- Understand and learn other relevant technologies that are currently deployed on the grid management system infrastructure networks.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and project lead skills. While showing a willingness to have a growth mindset toward advancing technical knowledge.
Experience
Promotion to level 2 requires a minimum of two years of experience at level 1; demonstrated capability to perform advanced and more difficult work as determined by the supervisor. Promotion to senior level requires a minimum of three-years of experience at level 2; is fully competent in all aspects of functional area of assignment and as such would be recognized as a specialist in area of assignment and may have periodic or occasional lead responsibilities.
Education
Completion of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution that prepares the employee for the assignment.
SRP
Arizona United States
www.srpnet.com
