Senior SCADA Engineer

The Senior SCADA Engineer (Operations) provides advanced technical leadership and hands-on support for SCADA, controls, and OT (Operational Technology) systems across a fleet of utility-scale Battery Energy Storage (BESS) sites and Solar sites. This role is a key operational partner to site operations, performance engineering, and network/IT teams—ensuring high availability, safe remote operability, accurate telemetry, and reliable integration with EMS/AGC and market interfaces.

As a senior member of the operations team, you will serve as a primary technical point of contact for assigned sites or regions, leading incident response and problem management, driving root-cause analysis for recurring issues, and improving monitoring, alerting, documentation, and support workflows. You will also mentor junior engineers and help standardize OT practices across the fleet.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as support for SCADA and controls incidents impacting BESS site availability, dispatchability, and telemetry quality;
• Lead real-time troubleshooting of SCADA servers, gateways, historians, alarms, site controllers, BMS interfaces, PLC/RTU/IED communications, and OT networking components;
• Own incident coordination with internal operations, performance, IT, and cybersecurity teams, as well as external OEMs and integrators;
• Ensure reliable telemetry and control required for utility and ISO operations, including MW/MWh, state of charge, availability, breaker status, alarms, and limits;
• Maintain accurate point lists, scaling, timestamps, and naming conventions;
• Resolve data quality issues such as stale values, incorrect scaling, and inconsistent calculations;
• Develop and maintain dashboards, alerts, and KPIs to improve fleet reliability and reduce mean time to resolution;
• Lead root cause analysis for recurring failures and track corrective actions with vendors and internal teams;
• Maintain site documentation, including as-builts, tag databases, and recovery procedures;
• Review and support OT changes with clear rollout and rollback plans;
• Drive fleet standardization and best practices across OEMs and integrators;
• Review design and implementation of new project sites coming online;
• Other duties as required or assigned.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience;
• 5+ years of experience in SCADA, controls, or OT operations, preferably in power generation, renewables, or BESS;
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed OT systems and industrial networks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with BESS controllers, inverters, BMS, and plant controllers;
• Strong knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as DNP3, Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, SQL;
• Experience with platforms such as Ignition, SEL RTAC, or N3uron;
• Scripting or automation experience (Python, PowerShell, Bash);
• Experience working with different ISOs such as CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, etc.

Compensation and Location:

Salary: A base salary commensurate with experience;
Bonus: An annual bonus will be awarded based on individual performance and the overall success of the business;
Benefits: Aypa offers an attractive benefits package with excellent health care/dental/vision, 401k matching, unlimited vacation, paid parental leave, and other health/wellness benefits;
Location: Remote (USA). The ability to work in the United States is a requirement;
Travel: <20%