Network Engineer at Enel Green Power

About the job

The Network Engineer will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and management of the Enel Green Power (EGP) South Africa Offices and Power Plants network and cybersecurity infrastructure. The role will implement, manage, and maintain processes for all network devices and platforms to ensure compliance with requirements, company policies, and industry best practices for EGP in Southern Africa (South Africa and Zambia).

Key Responsibilities

• Installation, management, maintenance, and documentation of the LAN and WAN for EGP’s Headquarters in Southern Africa and Satellite offices.
• Engineer Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions in support of the overall objectives of EGP Southern Africa.
• Provide technical leadership, governance, and oversight for the design and implementation of ICT systems, projects and changes within the EGP Southern Africa environment, with a core focus on end-user system functionality to ensure accessibility, reliability, and compliance.
• Work with business unit executives and service providers to introduce required system functionalities onto the ICT environment.
• Participate in new plants’ ICT network and security infrastructure design and setup, in collaboration with Engineering & Construction and/or other involved parties and on activities coordinated by the Global Digital Solutions department.
• Ensure the efficient status of plants and control room network and security equipment by making use of appropriate monitoring tools and/or leading the discussions with specific suppliers dedicated for this purpose.
• Collect and manage equipment security logs.
• Implementation of control systems’ security and network equipment architecture and configurations.
• Managing the IP Addressing Plan for his/her area of responsibility.
• Producing and keeping up-to-date documentation regarding design rules, network topology, cabling, communication and routing protocols, equipment configuration used in offices, plants and control rooms.
• Applying software and firmware updates on network and security equipment.
• Ensure that the proper process for managing changes of ICT architecture in plants and control rooms of his/her own responsibility is followed.
• Creating and managing centrally located user accounts and related access profiles for network access and process equipment access.
• Participate in the periodic ICT budget definition process.
• Managing the requirements of the Engineering & Construction and Operations & Maintenance departments based on Enel’s global standards.
• Collaborate with the Procurement Department on projects and activities.
• Managing CAPEX and OPEX, as well as Purchase to Payment processes and requirements on the SAP system.
• Create and manage Service Level Agreements with third party providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Information Systems, Information Technology,or Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 5 - 10 years’ experience in a medium/big-sized company, preferably with an Industrial Control Systems focus.
• Cisco CCNA or CCNP certification an advantage
• CRISC, CISSO Certification an advantage
• CMNO certification an advantage