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Georgia System Operations is a progressive organization offering opportunities for engineers, technicians, project managers, and more. We’ve been honored with Best Place to Work in Georgia.
Our people-over-profit culture and competitive compensation and benefits packages prove we’re dedicated to retaining the best candidates.
We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a strong retirement program, career development, and flexible work schedules. We’re focused on wellness and being a supportive member of the community.
Affordable health insurance options, such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, are available for full-time employees.
Basic insurance for accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, and life insurance are available at no cost. Employees can opt to pay for more coverage.
A competitive retirement plan, with company match and company contributions, is available for full-time employees.
We offer many options for our employees’ well-being, including an employee assistance program, an on-site fitness center, and several wellness-focused programs.
Educational reimbursement is available for full-time employees. Employees can also participate in a 529 college savings plan.
Employees can participate in voluntary benefits, covering hospitalization and critical illness, legal and ID theft protection, and pet insurance.
Vacation and sick leave are available for full-time positions via the paid time off program. GSOC is closed for 11 national holidays annually.
We support growth and development for all our employees through an on-site training program, online learning tools, and programs designed to develop industry knowledge.
Our employees are given volunteer paid time off every year to contribute to the community service organization of their choice.
The Security Applications team plays a key role in developing, maintaining, and integrating applications that support the secure and reliable operation of the electric grid. The Security Applications team serves as a catalyst for GSOC Power Technology by driving automation and efficiency to support the unique needs of security, compliance, and operations. To perform this essential function, the developers must possess strong problem-solving capabilities, keen curiosity, and the ability to learn and adapt quickly to changing technologies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
Job Duties:
- Developer I:
- Contributes to the development of bug fixes and enhancements to custom applications.
- Assists with the customization of commercial software through the development of custom scripts, dashboards, queries, regular expressions, etc.
- Develops new features to existing applications alongside or under the direction of senior team members.
- Develops documentation of processes and applications for dissemination to end users and amongst the Security Applications team.
- Coordinates with senior team members and other stakeholders to ensure testing prior functionality is placed into production.
- Coordinates with senior team members for code review exercises.
- Developer II:
- Develops bug fixes and enhancements to custom applications.
- Customizes commercial software through the development of custom scripts, dashboards, queries, regular expressions, etc.
- Develops new features to support evolving security, compliance, and operational requirements.
- Develops and helps in review of submitted documentation of processes and applications for dissemination to end uses and amongst the Security Applications team.
- Develops test cases and ensures new code is tested before being placed into production.
- Participates in code review exercises.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
Experience:
- Developer I: Less than 2 years of related experience.
- Developer II: At least 2 years of demonstrated experience.
Equivalent Experience:
- Developer I:
- Associates degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 2 or more years of related experience, OR
- High school diploma with 4 or more years of related experience.
- Developer II:
- Bachelor's degree in a non-related discipline with 4 or more years of demonstrated experience, OR
- Associate's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4 or more years of demonstrated experience, OR
- High school diploma with 6 or more years of demonstrated experience.
Specialized Skills: To perform this essential function, the Developer II must possess strong problem-solving capabilities, keen curiosity, and the ability to learn and adapt quickly to changing technologies, procedures, and compliance requirements. Must be able to pass a NERC CIP personnel risk assessment screening. To succeed in this role, the Developer II should have the following skills and experience:
- Web development using one or more modern MVC frameworks. Experience with PHP frameworks, such a Laravel, is strongly preferred.
- Scripting using languages such as PowerShell and Python.
- Knowledge of REST and Web Services APIs.
- Experience writing regular expressions.
- Experience with the .NET framework and C# is desired but not required.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks is desired but not required.
Travel: 5%. Occasional travel for training, conferences, or state associations may be required.
Unusual Hours: Occasional overtime may be required. Supports customers, incident response processes, and systems after hours, as needed.
