Technology

Southern California Edison
Job Title: Websphere Administrator (ITS3)(80003877)
Location: Rosemead, CA

posted 02-08-12

Description: This position will be in the IT Services Computing Services - Infrastructure Application Support division within Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Information Technology & Business Integration (IT&BI) Business Unit. The successful candidate will configure and maintain Websphere within the IT infrastructure, including evaluating and analyzing problems/technical issues, as well as testing, integrating, maintaining, modifying, monitoring and automating.

Typical responsibilities will include: •Handling enterprise-wide Linux based application projects of high complexity by ensuring optimal performance of applications and associated infrastructure. •Performing long-range strategic planning of IT Infrastructure and performing operational aspects of Websphere implementations within the infrastructure. •Configuring highly complex and highly visible integration points such as database connectivity, MQ connectivity and/or SOAP calls to meet business requirements. •Implementing SSL and mutual client authentication. •Providing support to install code to system test and production to ensure maximum supportability by applying best practices. •Implementing technology successfully with minimal down time or disruption. •Writing scripts to automate manual tasks and to streamline operational tasks. •Participating actively in cross-functional project teams to help solve issues involving various technologies spanning multiple work groups. •Consulting with project engineers/managers to ensure technology is appropriately deployed and utilized in delivering applications and technology solutions. •Performing complex technical analysis, design review, and providing recommendations on proposed logical and physical designs. •Participating as a subject matter expert in enterprise-wide technology programs having an impact on operating and application systems environment and in project estimation. •Tracking asset performance and utilization on a continuous basis. •Providing on-call 24x7 support on a rotation basis. •Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

Basic Qualification: •Must have five or more years of Websphere application server experience with a minimum of one year working with Websphere version 7. •Must have Linux or UNIX operating system experience.

Job Requirements: •Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. •Typically possesses five or more years of IT experience performing complex analysis, consulting, and providing recommendations. •Typically possesses two or more years of Linux or UNIX operating system experience. •Demonstrated experience with computer/network security, and operating systems, including Linux, LAN/WAN internetworking, protocols such as TCP/IP and network perimeter protection. •Demonstrated experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting Websphere 6 and 7 infrastructures and applications. •Demonstrated experience supporting, tuning, and hardening Java Virtual Machines. •Demonstrated experience with scripting automated processes. •Demonstrated experience applying application security such as hardening servers, SSL, and mutual client authentication. •Demonstrated experience performing security related risk assessments and/or audits. •Demonstrated experience with automated deployment strategies with Websphere. •Demonstrated knowledge of Web Services development. •Demonstrated integration experience with MQ and SOAP. •Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project. •Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers. •Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation. •Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning. •Must be able to provide 24x7 support on an on-call rotational basis.

Southern California Edison
Job Title: SCADA Engineer (ITS2)(71000130)
Location: Alhambra, CA

Description: This position will be within Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Information Technology and Business Integration (ITBI) Business Unit supporting electric power Energy Management Systems (EMS). The successful candidate will support daily operations and maintenance of the SCE EMS/SCADA systems in order to meet client needs. This position will be responsible for building and maintaining graphical displays depicting the Edison electrical system as well as adding/modifying database content reflecting field equipment changes.

Typical responsibilities will include: •Responding to engineer requests for point additions using spreadsheets, csv files and scripts to convert these files to input application data information, including coordinating the installation of this information according to client schedule and needs. •Identifying SCADA communication problems in support of field equipment changes and coordinating fixes with Power System Controls technicians. •Monitoring the system performance and fielding client problem requests as a client problem troubleshooting resource. •Ensuring the client support capability is continuously present, including answering trouble calls. •Maintaining the continued reliability of the overall EMS system by enforcing proper database and display install and testing methods. •Supporting the EMS/SCADA Client operations by ensuring the database and displays accurately models the SCE electrical system. •Some off-hours support is required to support a rotating incident management program and client off-hours install requests. •Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

Basic Qualification: •Must have experience using Computer Aided Drawing and Database Maintenance tools.

Job Requirements: •Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. •Typically possesses at least three years of experience working with data acquisition and/or control systems. •Demonstrated experience providing maintenance and development support for data acquisition or process control systems, including: system problem analysis and resolution, protocol communication analysis, and end device problem support. •Demonstrated experience using spreadsheets to convert or convey configuration information. •Demonstrated experience with computer operating system platforms supporting these applications, such Windows and UNIX. •Demonstrated knowledge of SCADA database and display maintenance. •Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaborate with end-users, peers and management. •Demonstrated ability to effectively analyze application information, and make sound decisions that have moderate business impact. •Must have good oral and written communication skills, and be customer focused to understand and appropriately respond to clients’ business needs. •Must have the flexibility to perform in IT and client organizations where priorities, roles, processes, and procedures are undergoing continuous improvement. •Demonstrated ability to motivate self to overcome obstacles and achieve goals. •Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office or other business tools suite. •Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers. •Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation. •Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

Preferences: •Have working knowledge of the design of process control equipment and engineering principles. •Understanding of: electrical power concepts and power system components (i.e. Generators, Transformers). •Understanding of basic telecommunications infrastructure use to acquire application data. •Familiarity with industry standard Energy Management System such as the GE XA/21 system. •Familiarity with communication protocols such as CDC1, DNP3 and ICCP. Unix/Windows/Java system usage skills.

Comments: •If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com. •Additional testing may be required as part of the selection process for this position. •Edison International and Southern California Edison reserve the right to close or cancel a posting at any time. •Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. •Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship •This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

Southern California Edison
Job Title: Lead Websphere Administrator (ITS4)(80003598)
Location: Rosemead, CA.

posted 01-20-12

Description: This position will be in the Infrastructure Applications division within Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Information Technology & Business Improvement (ITBI) Business Unit. The successful candidate will play a lead role for General Application Support in its support of IBM Websphere, Cloud computing, Data Power and Tomcat by installing, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining applications using these technologies. In addition, this role will also support and maintain applications for other business units in a senior capacity.

Typical responsibilities will include: •Providing 24 hour – 7 day/week operational support on IBM Websphere-based applications on the IT Infrastructure. Support will include the ability to maintain Websphere 6 & 7 infrastructure on UNIX, Linux-based platforms and troubleshoot system problems. •Ensuring system improvements are successfully implemented such as modifying memory allocation to Web-based applications, isolating application processes that consume too many system resources, ensuring security is implemented on the web-based applications, and working with application teams to troubleshoot code or scale environment. •Performing maintenance work such as reviewing proposed changes and making recommendations, migrating bug fixes and maintenance patches for application software both in system test and production. Maintenance work will also include patching Websphere environment to remain current. •Performing highly complex technical analysis and provide recommendations on proposed physical architectures and detailed designs. •Installing, configuring, and maintaining Websphere & Apache Tomcat within IT infrastructure. This includes evaluating, analyzing problems/technical issues, testing, integrating, maintaining, modifying, monitoring and automating. •Participating as a subject matter expert in enterprise-wide technology programs having an impact on operating and application systems environment and in project estimation; tracking asset performance and utilization on a continuous basis. •Performing long-range strategic planning of IT Infrastructure and operational aspects of Websphere & Apache Tomcat implementations within the infrastructure. •Configuring highly complex and highly visible integration points such as database connectivity, MQ connectivity and/or SOAP calls to meet business process requirements. •Implementing SSL and mutual client authentication; •Provide support to install code to system test and production to ensure maximum support by applying best practices. •Implementing technology successfully with minimal down time or disruption. •Writing scripts to automate manual tasks and to streamline operational tasks. •Working to provide a common framework and environment to support application developers and maintenance activities. •Participating actively in cross-function project teams to help solve issues involving various technologies spanning multiple work groups; consulting with project engineers/managers to ensure technology is appropriately deployed and utilized in delivering applications and technology solutions. •Performing complex technical analysis, design review, and providing recommendations on proposed logical and physical designs. •Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

BASIC QUALIFICATION: •Must have eight years' IT experience performing complex analysis, consulting, and providing recommendations. •Must have five years of total Websphere application server experience •Must have at least one year working experience with Websphere version 7.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: •Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or the equivalent combination of formal education, training, and experience. •Typically possesses at least one year of Tomcat application server administration experience and deployment of Java applications on Tomcat application servers. •Typically possesses at least 5 years of total UNIX and Linux operating system experience. •Demonstrated hands-on experience with Websphere 6 & 7 auditing and troubleshooting. •Demonstrated experience in support, tuning, and hardening of Java Virtual Machines. •Demonstrated experience in building and supporting Websphere infrastructure. •Demonstrated experience with scripting to automate processes. •Demonstrated experience applying application security such as hardening servers, SSL, and mutual client authentication. •Demonstrated experience performing security related risk assessments and/or audits. •Demonstrated experience with automated deployment strategies with Websphere. •Demonstrated knowledge of Web Services development knowledge. •Demonstrated integration experience with MQ and SOAP. •Demonstrated experience with computer/network security, and operating systems, including UNIX, LINUX, LAN/WAN internetworking, protocols such as TCP/IP and network perimeter protection. •Proficient with PC applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. •Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers. •Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation. •Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

PREFERENCES: •Java Development experience •ITIL V3 certification •Websphere 7 certification

Southern California Edison
Job Title: Senior Applications Analyst (ASY3)(71000040)
Location: Rosemead, CA

posted 01-20-12

Description: This position will be in the Solutions Delivery & Maintenance (SDM) division within Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Information Technology & Business Integration (ITBI) Unit. The successful candidate will partner with SCE’s Power Procurement Business Unit (PPBU) and Risk Control clients and provide subject matter expertise for the energy procurement business processes and related software implementations.

Typical responsibilities will include: •Supporting Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software packages and internally developed applications. •Providing functional direction to IT technical staff and COTS software vendors to address technical issues and solve business problems. •Applying in-depth knowledge of the energy procurement business to translate client functional requirements into system requirements and conceptual design. •Working with clients to assess the impact of new regulatory policies and market structure changes on existing PPBU business processes and applications. •Recommending process alternatives and training opportunities. •Supporting medium to large project teams on projects that are small to moderate in complexity. •Performing Ad Hoc analysis and supporting complex end-user developed models and tools. •Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

Basic Qualification: •Must have a minimum of eight years of experience as a Systems Analyst including experience in the following areas: requirement gathering, estimation, structured process analysis, and/or system design.

Job Requirements: •Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field; or an equivalent combination of formal education, training, and experience. •Demonstrated experience with the California energy procurement and regulatory processes. •Demonstrated experience with energy contract management, energy resource planning, price and demand forecasting, power scheduling and trading, risk control, credit/collateral process, and settlements. •Demonstrated experience implementing/supporting vendor software packages. •Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects or assignments. •Demonstrated experience partnering with clients on new business processes and find solutions that best fit the business needs and environment. •Demonstrated experience in the design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of software solutions supporting energy procurement business processes. •Demonstrated experience with database tools, such as ERWIN, Toad, Oracle, and MS SQL Server. •Demonstrated ability to work well in a dynamic business environment with changing priorities. •Demonstrated ability to gain clients’ trust and respect while building quality relationships. •Demonstrated experience in supporting applications developed using Microsoft Excel or Access. •Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices. •Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks and safety appropriately, execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers. •Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation. •Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

Preferences: •MBA/MA/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. •Experience in implementing or supporting Energy Trading and Risk Management Systems. •Knowledge of Independent System Operator (ISO) business operations.

Southern California Edison
Systems Engineer (Ref. # SCE - 80005175)
Location: Long Beach, CA

posted 12-18-11

This position will be in Information Technology division within Southern California Edison's (SCE) Information Technology and Business Integration (ITBI) business unit. The successful candidate will support the Customer Communications Organization (CCO) and will be responsible for incident and problem management and the day-to-day support of the CCO VoIP infrastructure, SQL servers, web servers, application servers, and CCO Mission-Critical Genesys application systems.

Typical responsibilities will include:

· Managing production and lab environments to ensure server health and performance, including risk mitigation, incident/problem management and resolution, failure analysis, and root-cause analysis.
· Conducting proof-of-concept and lab activities, including interoperability testing, quality metrics, and overall functionality testing.
· Making recommendations for improvements or system redesign; providing technical leadership and integration guidance on Mission – critical /contact center applications and framework; installing, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and providing patch updates for HP Proliant servers and Windows Server 2003/2008.
· Performing extensive proactive technical analysis of data planning, engineering, design, and system performance.
· Proactively monitoring server health and performance, using tools and technology to ensure high availability and reliability of CCO applications.
· Maintaining and updating the CCO Gold Image
· Creating and maintaining backup and restore scripts;
· Creating and maintaining server documentation or procedures utilizing ITIL Change Management methodology
· Ensuring compliance for system security utilizing SCE IT standards
· Ensuring compliance for vendor KPIs and contractual obligations
· Collaborating with various stakeholders (e.g., application developers, vendors, peers) to improve processes and operations.
· Working on-call rotations to provide 24/7 365-day coverage; providing support for integration, system, regression, and load testing prior to final release.
· Supporting Contact Center technologies (e.g., Genesys, Virtual Hold), recovery technologies (e.g., LanFree), and monitoring technologies (e.g., IBM Netcool).
· Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
· Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

BASIC QUALIFICATION:

· Must have a minimum of four years of experience installing, configuring, backup, troubleshooting, administrating, and recovery of Windows servers 2003/Server 2008 operating system.
· Must have experience in a high availability (24 hours / 7 days a week), high service level (99.5% or higher) operational organization.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

· Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, or related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
· Typically possesses six or more years of experience in the field performing operating system failure and root cause analysis and providing recommendations.
· Demonstrated experience with installation, configuration, maintenance, applications, backup, troubleshooting, administration, and recovery of Windows Server 2003/2008.
· Demonstrated experience with developing, maintenance, backup, troubleshooting, administration, and recover with the following technologies: Contact Center, Microsoft ASP, Microsoft .NET 3.5+, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access database.
· Demonstrated experience working with and enforcing ITIL, IT, or Contact Center standards around best practices, service accounts, configuration, registry entries, security settings/configurations, and file permissions.
· Demonstrated experience coordinating with clients on routine and scheduled outages to avoid/minimize downtime or disruption of operations.
· Demonstrated experience working with Web servers (IIS, Apache) and associated Web protocols.
· Demonstrated ability to work with vendors to obtain problem resolution.
· Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Project.
· This position requires travel to support Rancho Cucamonga Contact Center environment as needed.
· Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
· Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
· Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision-making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation.
· Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

PREFERENCES:

· MCSE certified.
· HP certified.
· Genesys certified.

COMMENTS:

· Additional testing may be required as part of the selection process for this position.
· If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com.
· Edison International and Southern California Edison reserve the right to close or cancel a posting at any time.
· Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
· Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Southern California Edison
Application and Systems Administrator (Ref. # SCE - 80005300)
Location: San Clemente, CA

posted 12-08-11

This position will be in the Computing Services Support Organization at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) within Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Information Technology & Business Integration (IT&BI) Business Unit. The successful candidate will provide administration and technology support for all applications and systems users managed in the SONGS domain, such as Lotus Domino, Windows Active Directory, and Oracle Databases. The successful candidate will identify and troubleshoot problems as well as participate in Tier 2 and 3 problem escalation for all applications and systems. The successful candidate will provide support for various technology platform UserID provisioning and UserID lifecycle.

Typical responsibilities will include:

· Providing Administrative tasks on applications and systems such as Lotus Domino, Windows Active Directory, and Oracle Databases, including resetting passwords, compacting databases, adding, modifying, and deleting Domino accounts, capacity planning, and performance monitoring.

· Working with cross-functional project teams to provide tier 1 and tier 2 support for Lotus Domino version evolutions. Carrying out tasks expected of a mid-level technical person such as migrating mail databases, upgrading server software, and maintaining mail replica servers. Participating in quality assurance and user acceptance testing for release preparedness and verification.

· Working with applications and systems such as Lotus Domino, Windows Active Directory, and Oracle Databases to provide support for tactical and strategic operational and implementation evolutions. For example, ensuring that users at SONGS are being provisioned in accordance with enterprise provisioning strategies; ensuring that user naming and provisioning conventions are aligned to enterprise standards; implementing and monitoring areas such as capping strategies, user security, group security, and administrative security; ensuring that all applications and systems are managed in a uniform manner as it relates to provisioning conventions; ensuring that the corporate mail template is implemented and extended in accordance with enterprise standards.

· Working with users directly to support capping, archiving, bookmarking, team room creation and access, group e-mail support, and direct user support tasks. Collaborating with desktop engineering/support folks for both desktop OS version and Notes version migrations.

· Working on the Network Security Desk to provide UserID provisioning and UserID lifecycle support. Participating in the Network Security Desk rotation to support the creation, lifecycle management, suspension/disablement, and deletion of UserIDs across various technology domains. Using the various technology platform supported at the Network Security Desk, service requests for UserID access control modifications.

· Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.

· Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.

Basic Qualification:

· Must have a minimum of three years of experience supporting Lotus Domino in a tier 2 and tier 3 capacity.

· Must have a minimum of three years of experience supporting UserID management in Lotus Domino, Windows Active Directory, and Oracle Databases.

Job Requirements:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems or a related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

· Demonstrated experience with identity management based provisioning systems.

· Demonstrated experience with filesystem security, network share security, group and directory structures, database security, and generalized access control concepts.

· Demonstrated ability to interface effectively and collaborate with others, including the ability to work on peer and cross-functional teams as well as provide client driven support.

· Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills.

· Demonstrate excellent customer service skills.

· Demonstrated ability to accurately analyze information and make sound decisions.

· Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Project.

· Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.

· Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.

· Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, results delivery, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation.

· Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.

Comments:

· Additional testing may be required as part of the selection process for this position.

· If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com.

· Edison International and Southern California Edison reserve the right to close or cancel a posting at any time.

· Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

· Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.

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