Senior Engineering Technician

At the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, we deliver reliable water to a region with 19 million people-and toaccomplishthis,we rely onateam of Talented Employees: innovators, problem-solvers, andcollaboratorswho make it all possible.

This recruitment may result in an eligibility list*.

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Technician (Cyber Security) to act as a technical lead for cyber security across the Operational Technology (OT) environment, ensuring the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure. This position combines hands-on network monitoring and incident response with strategic security enhancements. You'll bring deep expertise in Industrial Control System (ICS), SCADA networking and security, along with strong experience configuring switches, routers, and firewalls (including EIGRP and BGP routing). Partnering with IT Security and key stakeholders, you'll drive the design, evolution, and modernization of Metropolitan's SCADA communications infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Monitor and defend the SCADA environments by identifying threats, investigating alerts and leading timely incident responses.

• Enhance the overall security architecture and controls through firewall administration, security validation, and implementation of OT Cybersecurity best practices.

• Communicate and collaborate with the team to resolve security issues, enhance security management and implementing the security playbook.

• Contribute to and develop the security playbook and documentation to strengthen compliance, response readiness and operational consistency across the team.

• Proactively identify vulnerabilities by testing existing and new tools, evaluating vendors, correlating events and driving continuous security improvements through the security plan.

• Partner with IT Security and consultants to perform security audits and investigations, identify, resolve and document security weaknesses.

• Develop and maintain technical standards, documentation, and procedures while mentoring junior staff and promoting operational excellence in OT Cybersecurity.

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Schedule: 44/36. Start times are no earlier than 6 am and end times are no later than 6 pm.

Hybrid: Metropolitan's current practice in this position is a hybrid work schedule. This typically includes two days a week in person and the other days remote. This is subject to change dependent on organizational needs. In addition, a telework policy is scheduled for negotiations and once completed and implemented, will provide final direction on the hybrid schedule.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Eligibility List*: An eligibility list is a list of qualified candidates created when a job posting states that one will be established.

Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications listed in the original posting and successfully pass all stages of the recruitment process-but are not selected for the initial vacancy-may be placed on this list for future openings.

The list may be used to invite candidates to participate in a selection interview for a future vacancy in the same classification / title (if there is one). The duration of the list depends on the applicable bargaining unit.