ADMS System Engineer

Location: South Plainfield, NJ

Overview

Inabia is seeking an ADMS System Engineer to join our team supporting grid operations in South Plainfield, NJ. This role plays a critical part in the full technology lifecycle of Advanced Distribution Management Systems, encompassing design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of software, hardware, and integrated systems. The ADMS System Engineer collaborates closely with Analysts, Product Managers, System Operators, and cross-functional technical teams to ensure solutions meet all business, functional, and reliability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, operational workflows, and end-user needs to translate them into technical solution designs, system configurations, and implementation plans.
• Perform peer reviews of technical designs, implementation plans, configuration settings, code, and deployment artifacts to ensure accuracy, completeness, cybersecurity compliance, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Troubleshoot escalated support issues, conduct root cause analysis, and recommend both short-term workarounds and long-term corrective actions.
• Monitor system performance, review operational reports, and ensure ADMS functionality meets defined service levels, reliability expectations, and regulatory or operational standards.
• Support deployment activities for new features, subsystems, modules, upgrades, patches, and defect resolutions across development, test, and production environments.
• Conduct general system troubleshooting, including log analysis, configuration validation, trace review, and verification of recent changes to isolate and resolve issues.
• Document procedures, system configurations, troubleshooting steps, and operational practices to support knowledge transfer and repeatability.
• Perform workstation and server patching on Windows and Linux systems and maintain environment readiness for project teams, including command line configuration when required.
• Interpret and work with technical diagrams and documentation such as network topology diagrams, IP/LAN schemas, firewall configuration sheets, server architecture diagrams, and interface definitions.
• Configure workstations, applications, and system components to meet project and operational requirements.
• Communicate clearly with operators, project teams, cybersecurity teams, network teams, vendors, and other stakeholders regarding system status, issues, and deployment activities.
• Assist end users with system access issues, configuration questions, and functional requests such as login support, password resets, and new feature needs.
• Support application interface testing (e.g., SCADA, OMS, GIS, DMS modules, historian interfaces, ICCP, enterprise data integrations) to ensure data accuracy and availability.
• Create and manage operational and analytical reports, including Power BI dashboards, to support operations and decision-making.
• Work within virtualized environments using tools such as VMware vCenter for provisioning, monitoring, and maintaining system resources.

Key Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience supporting, upgrading, and implementing ADMS platforms.
• Demonstrated hands-on ADMS implementation and production support experience.
• Experience with ADMS and Grid Operations Systems integration.
• Strong systems troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities.
• Ability to work onsite in South Plainfield, NJ (5 days/week onsite or hybrid 3 days onsite/2 days remote).
• U.S. Citizen (USC) or Green Card (GC) holder — required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Power BI dashboard development for operational reporting.
• Familiarity with VMware vCenter for virtualized environment management.
• Experience with SCADA, OMS, GIS, or ICCP interface testing and integration.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux server administration and patching.
• Ability to interpret network topology, firewall configuration, and server architecture documentation.