The Senior Operations Technology Manager oversees OT systems for the battery energy storage fleet, ensuring reliable, secure, and compliant operations across the project lifecycle. Responsibilities include managing OT governance, vendor performance, cybersecurity, and incident response, while collaborating with various internal teams and external vendors.
Overview
esVolta, LP is a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. We are at the forefront of the fast-growing battery energy storage market, and our projects are helping to transition the nation’s electric grid to a cleaner and more reliable future. Our storage projects provide major utilities with a multitude of important services including reliable fast-ramping capacity, energy and ancillary grid services including renewable energy integration support.
esVolta is independently owned, and we are among the largest players in the US energy storage sector with about 2.0 GWh of projects in operation or construction, and a 25+ GWh development pipeline.
We are headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with employees in multiple regions across the U.S. Our diverse management team has many decades of experience in the renewable energy, utility, and independent power sectors. esVolta is an innovative industry leader in development, design, construction, financing, and management of utility scale energy storage projects.
At esVolta, every employee makes an impact on the company’s growth and profitability, every day. We have a fast-paced, high-performance and team-oriented culture. We value quality of life and flexibility for our employees and strive to help our team members achieve their career goals.
About The Role
We are seeking individuals to join as Senior Manager, Operations Technology to serve as the fleet Operational Technology design authority and owner’s technical lead for OT systems across the portfolio. This role standardizes OT architecture, control and telemetry implementations, operational runbooks, and evidence production across sites and vendors throughout the full asset lifecycle (development, pre-construction, construction, commissioning/commercial operation date, and operations). The role partners closely with Operations, Operations Engineering, IT/Security, Compliance, Asset Management, and external vendors to ensure OT systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally ready.
Compliance retains ownership of regulatory interpretation, compliance program governance, and regulator and audit responses. This role owns OT control execution, OT system governance, and the technical artifacts and evidence needed to support compliance and audit readiness. This role holds owner-side approval authority for OT access and material OT changes (including access changes, control/telemetry configuration changes, and network/security changes impacting OT), including vendor planned work. The role may pause or escalate work that does not meet fleet standards, documentation, safety requirements, or audit-evidence expectations.
Core Responsibilities
Skills & Qualifications
Compensation, Location & Benefits
The salary offered will depend on the specific skills and experience of the selected candidate. This position is also eligible to participate in our annual bonus program.
$150,00025%
esVolta, LP is a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. We are at the forefront of the fast-growing battery energy storage market, and our projects are helping to transition the nation’s electric grid to a cleaner and more reliable future. Our storage projects provide major utilities with a multitude of important services including reliable fast-ramping capacity, energy and ancillary grid services including renewable energy integration support.
esVolta is independently owned, and we are among the largest players in the US energy storage sector with about 2.0 GWh of projects in operation or construction, and a 25+ GWh development pipeline.
We are headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with employees in multiple regions across the U.S. Our diverse management team has many decades of experience in the renewable energy, utility, and independent power sectors. esVolta is an innovative industry leader in development, design, construction, financing, and management of utility scale energy storage projects.
At esVolta, every employee makes an impact on the company’s growth and profitability, every day. We have a fast-paced, high-performance and team-oriented culture. We value quality of life and flexibility for our employees and strive to help our team members achieve their career goals.
About The Role
We are seeking individuals to join as Senior Manager, Operations Technology to serve as the fleet Operational Technology design authority and owner’s technical lead for OT systems across the portfolio. This role standardizes OT architecture, control and telemetry implementations, operational runbooks, and evidence production across sites and vendors throughout the full asset lifecycle (development, pre-construction, construction, commissioning/commercial operation date, and operations). The role partners closely with Operations, Operations Engineering, IT/Security, Compliance, Asset Management, and external vendors to ensure OT systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally ready.
Compliance retains ownership of regulatory interpretation, compliance program governance, and regulator and audit responses. This role owns OT control execution, OT system governance, and the technical artifacts and evidence needed to support compliance and audit readiness. This role holds owner-side approval authority for OT access and material OT changes (including access changes, control/telemetry configuration changes, and network/security changes impacting OT), including vendor planned work. The role may pause or escalate work that does not meet fleet standards, documentation, safety requirements, or audit-evidence expectations.
Core Responsibilities
- Own OT lifecycle for the BESS fleet and ROC, including the Energy Management System (EMS), site controllers, SCADA, telemetry, communications, and monitoring/logging.
- Act as fleet OT design authority: define and maintain standards/baselines (architecture, segmentation, naming, telemetry, monitoring) and enforce adoption.
- Embed OT requirements into development and EPC scopes through design reviews and required as-built deliverables.
- Define commissioning and turnover criteria, including Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Test (SAT) scope, point-to-point checks, telemetry validation, and control-mode readiness; partner with Operations Engineering to close gaps.
- Own ISO-facing dispatch readiness: control-mode governance, telemetry quality, communications performance, and ROC/market coordination.
- Ensure 24x7 operational readiness via runbooks, alarm rationalization, escalation paths, and data-quality controls that support dispatch performance.
- Administer OT vendor performance (managed OT security services, EMS vendors, and OEM partners): set requirements, approve work, verify deliverables, enforce SLAs, and lead escalations; deliver audit-ready OT evidence and exception tracking to Compliance and run a recurring vendor performance review cadence aligned to contract deliverables and operational risk.
- Run OT cybersecurity and access governance with IT/Security and managed providers, including remote access workflows, MFA, logging, and periodic access reviews.
- Govern OT change/release management across vendors (OEM, EMS, network/security), including patching, configuration control, rollback planning, and evidence retention/traceability.
- Lead OT incident response and resilience for control, communications, and cyber events, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, backup/restore, disaster recovery and business continuity planning; coordinate with Operations and HSE on safe work controls and outage planning.
Skills & Qualifications
- 5-7+ years of Operational Technology experience is required, including 3+ years in renewables, energy storage, or critical infrastructure operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls/Automation Engineering, or related field is required (ABET-accredited preferred). Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., GICSP/GRID, CISSP, or ISA/IEC 62443-aligned OT cybersecurity credentials/training).
- Proven ROC/24x7 support and ISO telemetry/control readiness (CAISO and ERCOT; other ISO/RTO experience a plus).
- Strong OT networking and protocol knowledge (DNP3, Modbus, ICCP where applicable).
- Owner-side leadership across the full project lifecycle (development through operations), including commissioning/turnover and acceptance testing (FAT/SAT).
- Demonstrated OT cybersecurity governance experience (NIST, IEC 62443), including vendor/remote-access controls; familiarity with NERC/CIP concepts.
- Hands-on IAM and vendor remote access governance (approvals, logging, recertifications) and OT change/configuration management (patching/releases, baselines, rollback).
- Vendor and contract-performance management experience (SLAs, KPIs, escalation, corrective actions to closure).
- Strong troubleshooting and structured problem solving, including leading technical RCAs and preventing recurrence.
- Strong communication and cross-functional leadership across internal teams and vendors; able to brief leadership.
Compensation, Location & Benefits
The salary offered will depend on the specific skills and experience of the selected candidate. This position is also eligible to participate in our annual bonus program.
$150,00025%
- 401(k) program with 6% match
- 20 vacation days, 5 sick days and 9 observed holidays
- Medical, dental and vision care benefits
- Monthly cell phone stipend
esVolta Aliso Viejo, California, USA Office
Aliso Viejo, CA, United States
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