System Administrator

This System Administrator position will support Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA)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., * With BPA 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 BPA 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 BPA 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.

• 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.
• 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 Extrac

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Utility industry experience
• Knowledge of and proficient skill in applying the following:
• Designing and/or maintaining high availability systems having 24x7 support
• Version Control Systems
• Proven experience collaborating with software developers, testers and users throughout the System Life Cycle (SLC)
• Ability to create and maintain clearly written technical, user, and system documentation
• Ability to analyze information and use logic to address work related issues and problems, with understanding of impact on current and future programs and processes.
• Provide a sustainable IT infrastructure by supplying cross training and functional documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly become familiar with existing systems and codebases
• Experience using or automating PowerWorld Simulator or other electric power system simulation software (such as GE PSLF and V&R ROSE) is preferred
• Microsoft PowerShell
• Web services and socket-based protocols (i.e. XPATH, XML Schemas, XSLT, WCF, SOAP)

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, WA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $56.00 - $61.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

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