DERMS Engineer / Analyst

Georgia Power Company utilizes Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) software for the management and control of the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) such as photovoltaic / solar, wind, and other forms of generation on the electric grid.

The DERMS Engineer / Analyst role will support the Grid and Edge DERMS currently being deployed at Georgia Power Company.

This position will support integration of Grid and Edge DERMS into other platforms in the IT Enterprise and OT domains as well as developing dashboards to complement and summarize DERMS data for users.

The role will also test and troubleshoot DERMS results, including Forecasting, Optimization, and aggregated monitoring and controls, to ensure model inputs and operational outputs are accurate, traceable, and fit for operational use.

In addition, this position will support model build, model maintenance, model improvement, and model governance across GIS, SCADA, ADMS, DERMS Model Manager, and related enterprise systems.

The successful candidate will improve the quality, completeness, and operational usability of the model by identifying gaps, reconciling data across source systems, querying databases, testing interfaces, and coordinating changes with engineering, operations, IT/OT, and vendor teams.

The DERMS model will be built from GIS, substation internals, customer data, asset management data, DER attribution, customer program contractual parameters, interconnection agreement information, SCADA telemetry, and other operational data sources required to support DERMS functionality.

This role will initially follow a hybrid work schedule, with four days per week (Monday – Thursday) at the office located at 241 Ralph McGill.