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Spokane, Washington - Added Sep 29th, 2025
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System Administrator (Hybrid)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a System Administrator for their Spokane, Washington location. This position will provide full life-cycle support for critical Energy Management Systems (EMS). This includes operations, maintenance, and technical support for systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Automatic Generation Control (AGC), on-line power flow and state estimation systems, which provide real-time operational data and dispatcher training environments which simulate the power grid. Responsibilities also include supplemental technical project support.
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 System Administrator:
Requirements for System Administrator:
**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.
AG/BH13464
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a System Administrator for their Spokane, Washington location. This position will provide full life-cycle support for critical Energy Management Systems (EMS). This includes operations, maintenance, and technical support for systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Automatic Generation Control (AGC), on-line power flow and state estimation systems, which provide real-time operational data and dispatcher training environments which simulate the power grid. Responsibilities also include supplemental technical project support.
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 System Administrator:
- Provide professional technical system administration, support, and assist to plan and implement software projects critical to Transmission Services.
- Assist with and provide recommendations on the interpretation of design specifications.
- Provide recommendations for and assist with approved complex, EMS technical designs.
- Draft, write, and recommend code and test plans for software that addresses business needs and complies with project documentation requirements.
- Facilitate, collaborate, and work with an internal development team reviewing the viability and optimum use of various development methodologies.
- As requested, code, test, configure, stage, migrate, maintain, and document various vendor and in-house applications to provide solutions that support business requirements.
- Support the biweekly deployment of updated EMS databases and displays to the operational systems, coordinating closely with Dispatchers.
- Design, develop, and recommend software changes to improve performance.
- Serve as a subject matter technical resource and primary point of contact for real-time Energy Management System software. This work includes administer, install, maintain, and modify above systems, including:
- Recommend system / software modifications as need arises; implement approved changes.
- Run utility programs to compile, test, debug, and install software.
- Provide general application maintenance support including timely response to customer trouble reports, troubleshoot and analyze problems, develop and coordinate corrective actions, modify, test, and integrate code fixes.
- Provide application administration and development support including functional analysis, reviewing functional requirements, technical system analysis and design, develop, test, integrate and document application software, and associated displays and databases.
- Recommend software solutions and procedures to recover from malfunctions to keep downtime to a minimum; facilitate and drive implementation of approved solutions.
- Draft / develop operational procedures for computer operators, the Network and System Operations Center (N-SOC), software staff, and other users as required.
- Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements.
- Provide training on applications and systems, which may include creation of training materials and user guides, as well as conducting hands-on training.
- As needed, provide after-hours consultation related to computer operations, equipment failure, or program revisions and assist personnel with correcting critical / emergency issues.
Requirements for System Administrator:
- U.S. Citizenship and valid U.S. Driver’s License required.
- A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
- 3 years of directly related experience is required with an associate or bachelor’s degree in applicable fields.
- 5 years of experience is required without degree or degree not in applicable fields.
- Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.
- 3 years of Windows server operating systems experience.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio for creating and debugging C++ applications.
- Ability to use high level programming languages such as C++, script sufficient to create, modify, and maintain applications written in these languages.
- Knowledge of and skill in applying the following:
- Data systems and control systems design, principles, practices, and concepts.
- High availability operations and maintenance design, principles, and concepts.
- Configuration management concepts and practices.
- Project management and coordination concepts and principles.
**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.
AG/BH13464
Job ID: 13464