Operations Analyst – Cyber Assets (ONSITE)

Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for an Operations Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. The position formulates and applies various modeling techniques and other optimizing methods to develop and validate information that assists management with decision making, policy formulation, process development or other managerial functions. In addition, this position concentrates on collecting and analyzing data, analyzing workflow, and developing process analysis and decision support information and documents.

This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!

Pay Range: $59.00 - $63.00/hr. DOE.

Location: Vancouver, WA. (FULLY onsite)

Key Responsibilities for Operations Analyst:

• Provide project management support for compliance mitigation plans and asset strategy initiatives.
• Track mitigation dates and deliverables.
• Facilitate meetings to answer questions related to compliance and asset strategy plans and initiatives.
• Create reports and timelines detailing status of mitigation plan activities.
• Provide advanced analytics (via Excel, Access, SharePoint, etc.) and data parsing to help expedite data call reporting.
• Perform quarterly review of users with authorized cyber access to systems and unescorted physical access to Critical Cyber Assets (CCA) or Access and Control Monitoring (ACM) cyber assets.
• Draft management reporting tools that document and communicate the progress of standards-related activities to verify timely completion.
• Provide monitoring, review, analysis, and other compliance support activities for the reliability program by validating information is reliable, consistent, and useful. Analysis includes potential impacts to Transmission programs and processes.
• Assist in development of training materials and job aids to support above.
• Support the development of documentation necessary for reporting and audit requirements.
• Draft and recommend procedures to accomplish reliability compliance tasks for the Control Center program for review and approval by management.
• Support Control Center audits by providing technical expertise, on-site real-time data call response coordination, data gathering, and technical writing support. All drafted materials related to audit responses are reviewed, edited, approved, and issued by Federal staff.
• Provide program support and technical writing and coordination: Draft initial System Security and Compliance Plans and work with resource managers to finalize for Authorization to Operate certification. Validate that Plan(s) of Action and Milestones are linked to asset strategies.
• Provide direct support for data calls and industry surveys. This consists of review and analysis of existing documentation and any new/changing requirements, enlistment of appropriate SMEs input, and drafting of Control Center responses.
• Organize, monitor, analyze, and report on performance / metrics pertaining to data call artifacts collection and processes.
• Maintain and update process artifacts, verifying they are up-to-date and of adequate quality (reliable, consistent, and useful).
• Inventory the information needs of Control Center’s business programs and functions.
• Analyze business processes to identify gaps in information quality control and quality assurance.
• Assist in Technology Approval and Change Management processes and procedures to quality control, quality assurance and improvement.
• Assist in development and maintain performance metrics on the quality of key business information. Create, maintain, and periodically present executive dashboards of performance metrics to management.
• Draft and provide briefings, as requested, to staff and managers on information quality to raise awareness and to transfer knowledge on information quality fundamentals and best-practices.
• Provide budgetary tracking and analysis for services, equipment orders, trending cost, and expense tail tracking.
• Assist in tracking access (physical and cyber) privileges granted for the Control Center, maintaining current system, privilege, and resource manager information, per guidelines and time constraints.
• Verify all requests for cyber, physical, or logical access have a valid Personal Risk Assessment by checking the Security Office verification source or record or by contacting the Security Office directly.
• Perform the revocation and reinstatement of access to cyber and critical cyber assets.
• Coordinate with customers on Visitor Access Requests to the Control Centers.
• Gather and document reporting requirements and work with counterparts to develop data exchange and reporting solutions, using the database, Configuration Management System (CMS) database, library systems, and other record stores.

Requirements for Operations Analyst:

• An Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Management/Administration, Organizational Development or closely related technical discipline is preferred.
• With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.
• With an applicable Associates degree, 10 years of experience is required.
• Without an applicable degree or without a degree, 12 years of experience is required.
• 5 years’ written communication and technical writing to interpret SME’s input and convert into meaningful performance target language.
• 5 years’ experience developing presentations and delivering/presenting them at the Executive level.
• 2-5 years’ experience with Microsoft Access, Excel, SharePoint, and Visio.

**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**

About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:

Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $59.00 - $63.00 per hour

Experience:

• Technical writing: 5 years (Required)
• executive level presentations: 5 years (Required)
• Microsoft Access: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person