System Administrator

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System Administrator 3

12 months

Vancouver

This position closes to submittals on July 1st.

Position requires the ability to meet federal background and compliance requirements.

OVERVIEW

Assignment

This contract System Administrator 3 position will support Study Automation (ARES) Team within the Transmission Operations Development Group (JDD). This Study Automation Group, the ARES Team, is involved in the creation of business process automation and documentation by interpreting design specifications, assisting in technical design, coding software, following test and deployment procedures, complying with project documentation requirements, and working on a development team using a mix of development methodologies, including Agile, as a process automation software developer.. The ideal candidate would keep abreast of industry developments regarding appropriate network system infrastructure technology and sustain a high-level of attention to detail in preventing accidental system outages or problems.

Organization

JDD is unique in that it is the only group at the company that does custom design, development, and maintenance of grid operations software solutions. Our group consists of six sub-teams of .Net and Java expertise across multiple systems. Candidates must have strong technical and team skills to be able to do the job. Utility experience is ideal. Our team members must be able to learn and understand the complex interactions between multiple interconnected systems in order to build creative solutions and find and fix unique problems. We look for people who possess intuition and sleuthing skills beyond the basic diagnostic skills. Candidates also need the ability to understand and fulfill the various compliance requirements that regulate our business, supporting the safety and security of our systems.

ASSIGNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Note: All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by appropriate the manager or other federal personnel with the authority to do so.

With the manager oversight and approval:

• Assist with gathering and transforming information/data for prototyping automation efforts.
• Build and maintain data models and mapping relationships between several systems to support power flow studies and other automation efforts.
• Align models where practical
• Communicate the data models to our customers
• Design, document, and communicate effective technical solutions meeting end-user requirements.
• Design, develop, test and deploy n-tier C#.Net applications utilizing the .Net framework
• Work collaboratively with users and technical staff to design streamlined user interfaces.
• Analyze, test, and apply changes to the application environment under the prevailing change management procedures and requirements.
• Identify or resolve problems in applications at all system tiers (Application, Server, Database, and Network).
• Ability to analyze data, identify quality assurance/quality control issues, and identify failure or maintenance trends, including issues that may have origins in upstream systems.
• Productively integrate with an existing Agile development team.
• Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, software developers, QA testers, and users throughout the System Life Cycle (SLC).
• Provide emergency and backup support for existing systems and functions.
• With the manager/team lead oversight and approval, when needed, assume the role and responsibilities of a technical lead, which includes the following:
• Break down technical work into tasks and provide reasonable time estimates for completion.
• Communicate status of project development work to project team, users, information system owners and others.
• Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long- term maintainability of the system.
• Identify and escalate technical bottlenecks and impediments to the project manager and information system owner.
• Produce required project technical documentation.
• Review other developers’ code and provide technical constructive feedback where necessary to verify their code follows the company and team coding standards and programming best practices.
• Interpret design requirements and assist in technical design on related projects.
• Provide infrequent technical training to peers.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement system security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
• Monitor system performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Confer with system users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Support Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards and North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection (NERC-CIP) compliance when performing assigned work.
• Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long-term maintainability of the system.
• Mentor and assist other team members with application development.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Corresponding Experience

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Systems, Engineering or a directly related field is preferred.
• 8 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor’s or associate degree.
• 10 years of experience is required without an applicable bachelor’s or associate degree or no degree.
• Applicable Certifications may count for 1 year of experience.
• Experience should include demonstrated software programming work experience in Computer Science/Information Technology and transforming data for automation efforts.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 7 years of the following experience:
• Developing with .NET framework, C#, ReactJS, and SQL
• .NET programming within an experienced development team
• Object Oriented design principles
• Database Access (i.e. Entity Framework, NHibernate, ADO.NET)
• .NET Remoting, COM, and DCOM
• Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
• Experience with T-SQL development to write complex queries involving multiple tables. Experience in Extracting, Transforming and Loading (ETL) data from Excel, flat files, BCP utility, DTS, SSIS, and SSRS services
• Microsoft Office Suite applications, specifically PowerPoint, Access, and Project

All qualified applicants at CorSource Technology Group will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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