SCADA System Engineer

SCADA System Engineer

Hybrid Onsite in Reading

Permanent £50,000 - £60,000

The Role:

As a SCADASystem Engineer, you will be part of a major transformation program updating and relocating services into a new dedicated, secure Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) data Centre. In this role, you will lead various workstreams to test and provide detailed report of each functionality testing in support of the line of business services in on-prem CNI Environment.

You will be a lead Functional and integration testing and support server & storage, network, and security features within the Team, and liaise with stakeholders from Group server & storage, network, and security components as well as CNI operations and line of business delivery teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Test functionality of each feature of this SCADA System to meet functional and non-functional and integration requirements.
• Perform options analyses against emerging technology standards and business strategies.
• Ensure Test reports are created within the Team are created and reviewed to a high standard.
• Provide guidance and support to Team members and ensure adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards and other forms of good practice.
• Provide guidance and support to line of business projects requiring deployment in the CNI Data Centre.
• Establish and maintain framework for continuous engagement with stakeholders.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout a full lifecycle.

Your Profile

Key skills/knowledge/experience:

• Good years of significant experience of SCADA configuration and maintenance.
• Experience of Power System Operators (Control Room Staff).
• Experts in Power System Analysis.
• Seasoned SCADA experience - Testing.
• Ability to understand the functional aspects of SCADA and support in Functional and Integration testing.
• Ability to understand Web Interfaces, API protocols, interfaces, and integration layers.
• Significant experience of SCADA configuration and maintenance.
• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions.
• Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.

Good to have:

• Expertise in Power System Analysis.
• Maintain close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.
• Desirable experience with Cloud based systems - Kubernetes, microservices, containerization, VMs etc.

If you, or anyone you know of could be interested, please get in touch with or call and ask for Ben.