Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Sr. Business Systems Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. This role serves Transmission as an analyst for the development and implementation of varied and complex operational cybersecurity and compliance practices for Transmission systems used in control of the Bulk Electric System (BES) in close collaboration with the technical subject matter experts throughout TT to develop and monitor strategic regulatory compliance, cyber security, and IT/OT programs.
This Hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Sr. Business Systems Analyst:
Reliability Compliance
- Provide monitoring, review, analysis and support for the Security Management Program – verifying compliance evidence is collected in a timely manner and that information is reliable, consistent, and useful, providing recommendations for improvement as necessary.
- Identify and engage subject matter experts regarding programmatic cybersecurity, compliance, and conclusion of assessments for completion set by current timetables for regulatory compliance.
- At the direction of Management, draft and recommend processes and procedures to support NERC Mandatory Reliability standards and DOE NIST/FISMA security requirements for review and approval by management. Final documents will be reviewed and approved by staff.
- With oversight of the manager/staff, provide quality assurance support to verify that vetted and established compliance standards and guidelines are followed, alert manager of any noted concerns or potential issues.
- Provide support to NERC annual certification process and any other spot audit or compliance requests.
- Draft and recommend procedures to accomplish reliability compliance tasks for review and approval by management. Assist managers with the promotion and implementation of approved recommendations and/or adopted procedures.
- Provide support to management / staff in audits by providing technical expertise, data call response coordination and data gathering. All materials related to audit responses must be reviewed by management / staff.
- Participate as a technical member of the team performing cyber security reviews and analysis.
- Provide expert-level insight on cyber security best practices and architecture for data center operations.
- Provide program support to the Performance Analysis manager, including:
- Technical writing and coordination.
- Time management.
Data Call and Survey Coordination
- Provide direct support for data calls and industry surveys.
- Organize, monitor, review, and report on performance / metrics pertaining to data call artifacts collection and processes.
- Maintain and update process artifacts, verifying they are up-to-date and of adequate quality (reliable, consistent, and useful).
Security Management Program Support
- Provide visibility to managers of security related matters, their status and any potential issues or threats.
- Provides expertise and recommendations to guide the implementation of security best practices.
- Review current and/or develop new processes and procedures needed to reduce cyber security flaws and compliance violation.
- Review and interpret respective DOE orders, manuals, policies, and standards and evaluate their inclusion and impact in the respective Transmission Technology (TT) environment
- Develop and maintain a baseline of implemented security policies for all components of the Transmission Technology (TT) infrastructure.
- Review, interpret, maintain Interconnect Security Agreements (ISA’s) with partners.
- Oversight/monitoring/verification of ports and services, security patch management, malicious code prevention, security event monitoring, and system access control.
- Interpret and recommend aligning of FISMA policy and standards to NERC-CIP policy and procedures.
- Review and interpret various NIST standards to help modernize current process, procedures, and configurations to meet the ever-changing cyber security demands.
- Review and interpret various governmental policies, such as DOE Directives, CISA Directives, etc, to determine the potential impact to TT systems and assist in the development of a solution to meet these demands.
Requirements for Sr. Business Systems Analyst:
- Experience evaluating the adequacy and existence of IT security controls
- Experience implementing and adhering to cyber security standards, knowledge of the application of Cyber Security practices such as NIST
- A degree in Business Administration, Management, Organizational Development, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science or a directly-related discipline is preferred.
- With an applicable Associate’s degree, 10 years of experience is required.
- With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.
- Without an applicable degree, 12 years of experience is required.
- Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of operations analysis and progressively more technical in nature.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.