Senior Engineering Technician

Senior Engineering Technician (Cyber Security)

At the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, we deliver reliable water to a region with 19 million people—and to accomplish this, we rely on a team of talented employees: innovators, problem-solvers, and collaborators who make it all possible.

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

Education and Experience: High school diploma or high school equivalency certificate (HSEC), and two years of accredited college or university in engineering. AND eight years of relevant experience, two years of which must have been at the Engineering Technician III level. Relevant/Related Experience is defined as: Work experience in a combination of configuring network equipment and cybersecure environments.

Certifications, Licenses, and Registration Requirements

License(s): Valid California Class C Driver's License or equivalent that allows you to drive during your employment is required at time of application.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Excellent medical, dental, life, vision plans. • Deferred compensation in the form of a 401(k) plan (with matching contribution) and a 457 plan. • Retirement benefits under the California Public Employees' Retirement System • Tuition reimbursement • Training and advancement opportunities • Excellent working environment • Public transportation reimbursements

• Hub of public transportation: rail, subway, buses, and taxis

• On-site fitness center

For more information on MWD benefits, please use the following link: Benefits Regular FT PT Employees (Represented)

About MWD

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a state-established cooperative that, along with its 26 cities and retail suppliers, provides water for 19 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling, storage and other resource-management programs.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Qualified individuals with disabilities, who need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process, please call View phone number on click.appcast.io or email: View email address on click.appcast.io.

Metropolitan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic(s).

Application Filing Period: Closes at 4:30 pm PT on the date stated in the job announcement. However, it may close prior to the filing end date if sufficient applications have been received. If sufficient applications have not been received, then the filing period end date may be extended.

Qualifying Experience: Your resume must at a minimum include the month and year you began and ended employment, name of the organization, your title, and a brief description of your experience. If your employment was part-time, make sure you identify it on your resume next to the month/year.

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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.

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Sponsorship: Applicants for employment with The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B or other employment-based immigration case).