PI Application Analyst

Long term contract!

This position is for an Application Analyst SME working on the PI Delivery Support Team. The team creates, implements, and supports IT application enhancements, integrations, and new data products for the Aveva PI vendor software suite and tools used across the Energy Enterprise. The application and associated tools are used to collect, store, find, deliver, analyze, and visualize operational data associated with Regulated Power Generating Facilities, including Wind, Solar, and Nuclear Transmission and Distribution Assets, and Smart Grid devices. The team is responsible for the application health, which is spread across approximately 250 servers, over 900 interfaces, and over 8 million data tags.

**Duties and Responsibilities:**

- Provide day-to-day production support for applications, infrastructure, and end-user client tools (e.g., Datalink, ProcessBook, and PI Vision)

- Provide performance optimization and system health monitoring

- Provide installation, configuration, and monitoring support for the PI system servers, application operating systems, interfaces, and client tools on end-user workstations

- Create, monitor, and provide maintenance for PI system tags

- Provide monitoring and maintenance support for system security, deployment of patches, file backups, system restoration, and password management

- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive techniques

- Develop and maintain effective application technical support documentation

- Support the evaluation of operating system upgrades and changes to support tools

- Work directly with vendors and IT entities to troubleshoot and resolve issues

- Support the analysis of business processes, information gathering, interpreting requirements, developing specifications, and implementing process workflows

- Participate on project teams to deliver new functionality and support corporate initiatives

- Lead discussions, collaborate, and interact with Enterprise Architects, IT Operations, Telecom, and various other business units

- Comply with all applicable IT processes and procedures

- Provide periodic 24x7 on-call rotation support

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or five years of related business work experience in lieu of a degree

- Five or more years of experience with the installation, configuration, and monitoring of Aveva PI System servers, interfaces, and user tools

- Five or more years of experience as a system administrator of Aveva PI System

- Five or more years of experience with Aveva PI System tag creation, tag monitoring, and tag maintenance

- Five or more years of experience with performance optimization and monitoring system health for the Aveva PI System

- Three or more years of experience with PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework, PI Asset Analytics, PI Event Frames, PI Vision, and PI Notifications

- Experience with the monitoring and maintenance of Aveva PI System security and the deployment of patches

- Experience with Windows system administration (2018, 2016, and 2012)

- Experience with Active Directory Security

- Experience in Microsoft .NET application development

- Working knowledge of application development life cycles

- Technical knowledge of networks, firewalls, and related hardware and software

- Able to pass NERC background checks

- Able to provide periodic 24x7 on-call support

*Desired Qualifications:*

- Experience with Python and PowerShell Scripting

This is a versatile IT Analyst role that may involve work related to applications support, delivery, or both.

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