Grid Management System, Senior Advisor

s used by Grid Operations for critical operations every day. It is also used by T&D engineering to manage field assets needed for monitoring and control. As a Grid Management System, Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Oversees Grid Application related activities such as operation and maintenance of systems and sub-systems and interfaces with internal and external systems, system enhancements, updating databases and displays, and other activities required to ensure high availability.

• Optimizes algorithms, prediction models and an interface with grid equipment

• Troubleshoots and resolves complex systems issues either independently or collaboratively with the team, and with vendor engagement, as needed.

• Collaborates directly with IT team maintaining, improving, and implementing communications, hardware, and software infrastructure

• Interprets and implements various supervisory control and data acquisition protocol communications on remote devices and control centers

• Configures and modifies Grid Application databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate

• Performs complex technical analysis to define customer requirements, identify risks, design new solutions, and improve existing solutions

• Maintains and supports reporting, analytical, and historian systems

• Understands and implements various ISO (Independent System Operator) telemetry requirements to support various energy management needs of the customers and maintains grid operator reliability and compliance

• Writes and reviews documentation to describe configuration processes, logic, and test plans. Writes and reviews manuals for users

• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience architecting, designing, implementing, or supporting technology solutions for mission critical systems

• Experience with Transmission and Distribution networks, SCADA and control systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Four years of experience working with and/or supporting an electric utility Distribution Management System

• Possesses proficient analytical skills to troubleshoot complex problems related to real-time systems

• Capability to create and execute shell scripts, bash, and/or Python

• Proficient with SQL queries and reporting tools and platforms

• Experience performing data analysis, development of business reporting

• Strong coordination and communication skills to support working with cross-functional teams and vendors to achieve success in project activities

• Experience with GitHub, Dynatrace, KAFKA, YAML, Kubernetes, Jenkins

• Experience of Prometheus and Grafana

• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• Experience working in agile projects, devops, scrum

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.