Senior Principal Engineer (Energy Management System Infrastructure/ EMSD))

Energy Management System

• Provide first-level technical support to the Energy Management System to ensure high availability and reliability. This includes attending to technical problem reported by Power System Operators, operations and maintenance of Energy Management System, other supporting operational technology systems, OT/IT network & security infrastructures to ensure these systems (both hardware and software applications) are of high availability and reliability.

• Participates in the design and technical enhancements on mission-critical Energy Management Systems (EMS) such as integrating renewables such as solar, energy storage and electricity imports into EMS to meet operational business requirements. This also includes fine tuning of power system applications to support real-time operations such as power system studies (e.g. Contingency Analysis, Transmission Network Analysis, Short Circuit Analysis), Automatic Generation Control, load forecast, solar PV forecast, telemetry, State Estimator, and the Dispatcher Training Simulator.

• Coordinate with Licenseses’ to facilitate connection of new generation facilities, transmission network equipment (both electricity and gas systems) including performing updates and validate of EMS databases with field equipment and market operation.

Cyber Security Monitoring for Power Sector

• Provide first-level technical support for Cyber Security Operation Centre (CSOC) to manage cyber incident that may cause severe impact to Power System Operation and Power Sector's Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs). Job responsibilities include analysing security alerts, identifying anomalies, report findings to stakeholders. Perform daily triage of the security cases and following up with CII Operators and resolution of incidents reported.

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment & Management

• Develops and implement technical solutions, including cyber security mitigation measures and/or configuration changes to enhance the security posture of the Energy Management Systems and meet regulatory requirements such as Cybersecurity Act and CCoP.

• Coordinate security reviews risk assessments, security audits that can effectively pre-empt and identify significant security gaps or weaknesses. This include carrying out periodic documentation reviews, testing and implementing recommendations by the auditors, and performing system patching.

• In addition, the department also maintain other critical supporting infrastructure such as Uninterruptible Power Supply, fire protection system, security access system etc to ensure reliable operation of the EMS system and the operation centres.