Sr. Operational Technology Specialist (Control Systems Engineer)

OT Systems Engineers required Immediately to work in one of Australia's biggest energy providers.

Operational Technology (OT) Control Systems Engineer required Immidiatley
Initial 12 month contract - Port Macquarie, NSW - Immediate start

Our Client is looking for potential candidates for the position of OT Control Systems Engineer. Client is an electrical energy distribution company with a large and complex OT environment.

The location for these roles is Canberra ACT or Port Macquarie NSW.

Successful candidate would with the following overarching capabilities:

  • Operate independently and be able to add immediate value (demonstrated experience)
  • Design, document and deliver technical solutions within the established enterprise architecture
  • Communicate effectively with, and between the immediate team, business subject matter experts, developers, analysts, engineers, end users of systems and management
  • Highly proficient in fault resolution, problem identification, diagnosis, information seeking, analysis and problem resolution
  • Ability to accept responsibilities and accountabilities and be focused on delivering efficient and robust outcomes to meet the wider team objectives
  • Time management skills with excellent planning and organisational skills, along with a high degree of detail orientation
  • Proven ability to work in a high-pressure support environment with competing priorities and requirements
  • Respond to business needs in a timely manner

Additionally you must be able to effectively provide support with the following control systems and/ or operational technology systems experience:

  • Must have minimum +4 years demonstrated holistic hands-on experience and understanding of operational technology systems design and implementation concepts. IT/OT convergence integration experience a benefit
  • Proven high level key-role in designing, building and documenting business critical OT services and systems
  • Provide expertise and oversight to control systems network security throughout the entire OSI network model – layer 2 to layer 7
  • Employ extensive Linux/UNIX experience in system configuration, administration and support skills to underpin efficient and robust operational technology control system best practices
  • Extensive experience in system development, application development and support where the following languages have been used: C, C++, Perl, Java
  • Excellent knowledge and experience in debugging TCP/IP network stack
  • Software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Systems knowledge in management of large environments utilising a mixture of physical and virtualised resources

The following presents a list of professional skills that reflect the qualifications that are relevant for this role:

  • Technical writing
  • Network security specialisation
  • Systems Engineering
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Systems software development
  • Cyber security architecture and design
  • UNIX control systems administration