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Overview:
Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.
Job Title: GMS Systems Analyst (II/III/Senior/Lead)
Location: Taylor TX 76574
Duration: 12+ Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Job Summary:
- Provides technical support and performs system administration and maintenance activities to support the Energy Management System (EMS) and its ancillary systems and applications.
- Participates in planning and evaluating the impact of system modifications and maintenance activities to the grid operations.
- Maximizes EMS uptime and mitigates system failures.
- Analyses user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve EMS.
- This position will report to the Supervisor of Grid & Market Solutions (GMS) Systems Support Team.
Job Duties:
- Primarily responsible for support, system administration, and maintenance of the EMS upgrade systems through the various testing cycles.
- Responsible for the integration of various EMS applications, monitoring, and regular maintenance.
- Performs various kinds of structured/unstructured testing and logs defects in the defect tracking tool.
- Works closely with the business lead, project manager and technical lead by providing timely updates and feedback.
- Works closely with the EMS vendor and the client GMS development teams to reproduce defects and test the fixes.
- Works closely with the GMS Applications Engineering teams to get the defect fixes, releases installed across various testing environments.
Additional Job Duties may include:
- Routinely monitors EMS systems and applications, as well as regular maintenance activities
- Coordinates and performs Database updates and upgrades in the EMS environments
- Assist Operations Engineer, Market Operations, and other business units during EMS acceptance testing of new and/or enhanced applications
- Supports effective EMS use and administration by preparing and reviewing technical documentation
- Performs code build, patch implementation and migrations in the EMS systems
- Performs system setup and testing with Market Participants as appropriate
- Responds to system failures and operator questions on a 24/7 basis
- Works with market participants to resolve problems and implement changes
- Performs emergency recovery and troubleshooting of EMS system and applications
- Maintains real-time data collection to support EMS functions
- Maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs the EMS systems, applications, and interfaces
- Proactively identifies design problems and drives resolution
- Participates in EMS Disaster Recovery Drills
- Tests, certifies, and implements changes to the EMS Production and Test
- Performs systems maintenance and improvement activities to support the effectiveness of the EMS
- Participates in planning and evaluating the impact of system modifications and maintenance activities
Experience:
- 5+ years of work experience in system administration on Linux/Windows Operating systems and working experience with RDBMS (Oracle/SQL DB)
- Preferred system administration experience in GE EMS Suite. If not, other EMS vendor experience such as Hitachi/ABB, Siemens, OSI, GE PowerOn Reliance.
- Experience with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)/Inter Control-Center Communication Protocol (ICCP)
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Required)
- Master's Degree: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Preferred)
- or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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