Senior OT Infrastructure Engineer

Wärtsilä Energy Storage & Optimization (ES&O) is the leading global energy storage optimizer. Our mission is to deliver integrated energy solutions that build a resilient, intelligent, and flexible energy infrastructure - unlocking the way to an optimized renewable future. By integrating renewables, energy management technology, and storage with traditional energy resources, we reinvent clean energy production from the largest and most complex grids to the most remote and essential microgrids. We play a key role in Wärtsilä’s vision towards a 100% renewable energy future through flexibility, reliability, and integration and a more sustainable world for us all.

 

 

Wärtsilä’s Energy Storage & Optimization business unit is looking for an Senior OT Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing DevOps & Infrastructure Team located in our software development center in Herndon, VA, USA. This role will focus on designing and supporting network architecture, network devices, and network communication security for power plant (non-nuclear) Industrial Control System (ICS) environments both on the computing edge but also in the cloud. Be a key part of our mission to expand the use of reliable renewable energy throughout the world!

 

As an integral part of our development operations team, you will:

• Contribute to our DevOps and Infrastructure team to deliver the next generation energy management system (EMS) software that runs securely in both the cloud and bare-metal hardware at the edge (IoT).
• Provide support to the on-site commissioning teams to help with network and server troubleshooting to push customer projects over the finish line.
• Become a subject matter expert on our customer power plant networks and evolve the networks to fit changing conditions and new customers.
• Review network architecture for new sites.
• Remotely manage industrial firewalls (both in our cloud and at customer sites).
• Coordinate solving network engineering issues with customer cybersecurity teams.
• Coordinate on-site network troubleshooting with Wärtsilä’s Delivery and Lifecycle teams.
• Coordinate updates, maintenance, and licensing with customers for their purchased network components.
• Work with Wärtsilä’s internal teams to validate, acquire & test new hardware for use in an industrial environment as part of our standard products.
• Lead development effort for on-site engineering and operator workstations based on Linux or Windows-based systems.
• Work closely with other members of the DevOps team to learn about and contribute to cloud and systems administration (90% Linux, 10% Windows).
• Design, build, monitor and support on-site development and QA lab bare metal servers and networking gear in our Herndon, VA office.
• Provide best-practices documentation and training to commissioning teams based on our standard solutions to enable their own self-help.
• Advise the team on network technology selection (both hardware and architecture choices).
• Contribute to the company vision: participate in product road map planning and technology evaluation.
• Communicate effectively with customers and collaborate on project discussions.

 

Skills

• Experience with power plants or other industrial automation and control systems environments is highly desirable.
• 3+ years of TCP/IP networks and experience configuring network equipment such as switches, routers, & firewalls. Familiarity with Fortinet products would be beneficial, but not required.
• 2+ years of required experience in managing IPSEC VPNs & other robust connectivity solutions.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox, or Hyper-V would be beneficial, but not required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Linux and Windows system administration. Knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux