Entry Level IT Systems Specialist Jobs
New grad it systems specialist jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where a strong portfolio or internship work can matter more than a long resume. Most openings mix on-site and hybrid settings across Education, Medical Devices, and Healthcare & Medical Services, with employers like Werfen, South Orange County Community College District, and Clearway Energy hiring at this level now.
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What The Role Is
Reporting to the Operations IT Systems Architect, the IT Systems Specialist designs, implements, administers, and supports Clearway's Operational IT systems. Responsibilities include collaborating with business stakeholders to enhance existing systems and contributing to the team's and organization's continuous improvement goals.
This is a hybrid position located in our Scottsdale, Arizona office. If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.
What You'll Be Doing
- Participate in the implementation of technical solutions for Business Operations.
- Coordinate to identify, prioritize, and manage Operations IT projects and technology tasks within enterprise data historian, reporting, business intelligence, generation management (GMS), market integration, and settlements systems.
- Develop procedures, processes, and applications necessary to provide safe and secure operations systems that meet reliability regulatory standards.
- Proactively identify business process gaps, document findings, and drive improvements through implementation.
- Provide "real-time" support for System Operators, Generation Dispatch, and Power Marketing personnel.
- Effectively apply appropriate project and development methodology and follow project and development standards.
- Minimize and manage exposure and risk on project and production tasks.
- Maintain appropriate status reports, meeting minutes, and follow up with business partners, vendors, and internal resources.
- Participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation for production support up to one week per month.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience (minimum 5 years).
- Must have knowledge of interfaces, integrations, and process flows.
- Solid understanding of SDLC and experience in adopting and working in multiple project management methodologies.
- Familiarity with communication protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA/DA), or SCADA/EMS historian integration in wind, solar, or energy storage systems
- Intermediate level skills in implementing, supporting, enhancing, and maintaining complex, large-scale production critical applications in Cloud and data center hosted environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills with a strong focus on customer interaction, customer service, and presentation.
- A motivated self-starter with the capability to operate on their own with little direction and/or monitoring.
- Capability to help deliver quality business solutions within restricted timelines while appropriately communicating/escalating risks, issues, or constraints as necessary to business and/or IT management.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, business partners, and other departments.
- Ability to effectively prioritize with organizational skills to execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
What Would Be Nice
- 1+ year of systems and applications development, configuration, implementation, and support experience.
- 1+ year experience with an array of technologies, including Microsoft technology stack, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, MS SQL Server, T-SQL.
- Experience with RDBMS Databases (MS SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL) and programming in multiple languages.
- Experience with Hitachi Network Manager EMS and/or enterprise data historian systems.
- Familiarity with communication protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA/DA), or SCADA/EMS historian integration in a wind, solar, or energy storage system.
Clearway will not sponsor non-immigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).
#LI-Hybrid
Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.6 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.5 GW of conventional dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway's operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 3 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Clearway Energy Group's vision is a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.8 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.8 GW of flexible dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway's operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 2 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Working at Clearway, Hybrid Together
Here at Clearway, we're committed to balancing flexibility while fostering strong relationships with our teammates. We do this by prioritizing corporate new hires based near one of our offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Scottsdale, Houston, Denver, & Princeton. Our office-based employees typically work together from fabulous spaces on Tuesdays & Thursdays to collaborate & learn, build community, get to know one another, & enjoy company-provided meals & events. Our site-based employees collaborate in-person daily to keep our locations operating safely and efficiently while fostering strong relationships within their local communities.
Clearway Energy is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience & expertise. We intentionally foster a culture of inclusion that empowers our employees to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities & protected veterans to join the team. Clearway is a proud promoter of employment opportunities for our Military & Veterans.
What We Provide
Clearway offers all eligible employees working 20+ hours per week a comprehensive menu of benefits: generous PTO, medical, dental & vision care, HSAs with company contributions, health FSAs, dependent daycare FSAs, commuter benefits, relocation, & a 401(k) plan with employer match, a variety of life & accident insurances, fertility programs, adoption assistance, generous parental leave, tuition reimbursement, & benefits for employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions & domestic partnerships. For more on Clearway benefits, visit our Benefits Website.
Notice to Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances, and regulations for all applicants and employees. We will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to apply and compete for employment opportunities for which they are qualified. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@clearwayenergy.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
All official communication regarding this position will come only from an email address ending with @clearwayenergy.com. If you receive outreach from any other email address claiming to represent Clearway Energy, please do not respond, as it is fraudulent.
Notice to California Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances and regulations for all applicants and employees.
What The Role Is
Reporting to the Operations IT Systems Architect, the IT Systems Specialist designs, implements, administers, and supports Clearway's Operational IT systems. Responsibilities include collaborating with business stakeholders to enhance existing systems and contributing to the team's and organization's continuous improvement goals.
This is a hybrid position located in our Scottsdale, Arizona office. If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.
What You'll Be Doing
- Participate in the implementation of technical solutions for Business Operations.
- Coordinate to identify, prioritize, and manage Operations IT projects and technology tasks within enterprise data historian, reporting, business intelligence, generation management (GMS), market integration, and settlements systems.
- Develop procedures, processes, and applications necessary to provide safe and secure operations systems that meet reliability regulatory standards.
- Proactively identify business process gaps, document findings, and drive improvements through implementation.
- Provide "real-time" support for System Operators, Generation Dispatch, and Power Marketing personnel.
- Effectively apply appropriate project and development methodology and follow project and development standards.
- Minimize and manage exposure and risk on project and production tasks.
- Maintain appropriate status reports, meeting minutes, and follow up with business partners, vendors, and internal resources.
- Participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation for production support up to one week per month.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience (minimum 5 years).
- Must have knowledge of interfaces, integrations, and process flows.
- Solid understanding of SDLC and experience in adopting and working in multiple project management methodologies.
- Familiarity with communication protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA/DA), or SCADA/EMS historian integration in wind, solar, or energy storage systems
- Intermediate level skills in implementing, supporting, enhancing, and maintaining complex, large-scale production critical applications in Cloud and data center hosted environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills with a strong focus on customer interaction, customer service, and presentation.
- A motivated self-starter with the capability to operate on their own with little direction and/or monitoring.
- Capability to help deliver quality business solutions within restricted timelines while appropriately communicating/escalating risks, issues, or constraints as necessary to business and/or IT management.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, business partners, and other departments.
- Ability to effectively prioritize with organizational skills to execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
What Would Be Nice
- 1+ year of systems and applications development, configuration, implementation, and support experience.
- 1+ year experience with an array of technologies, including Microsoft technology stack, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, MS SQL Server, T-SQL.
- Experience with RDBMS Databases (MS SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL) and programming in multiple languages.
- Experience with Hitachi Network Manager EMS and/or enterprise data historian systems.
- Familiarity with communication protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA/DA), or SCADA/EMS historian integration in a wind, solar, or energy storage system.
Clearway will not sponsor non-immigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).
#LI-Hybrid
Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.6 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.5 GW of conventional dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway's operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 3 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Clearway Energy Group's vision is a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.8 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.8 GW of flexible dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway's operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 2 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Working at Clearway, Hybrid Together
Here at Clearway, we're committed to balancing flexibility while fostering strong relationships with our teammates. We do this by prioritizing corporate new hires based near one of our offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Scottsdale, Houston, Denver, & Princeton. Our office-based employees typically work together from fabulous spaces on Tuesdays & Thursdays to collaborate & learn, build community, get to know one another, & enjoy company-provided meals & events. Our site-based employees collaborate in-person daily to keep our locations operating safely and efficiently while fostering strong relationships within their local communities.
Clearway Energy is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience & expertise. We intentionally foster a culture of inclusion that empowers our employees to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities & protected veterans to join the team. Clearway is a proud promoter of employment opportunities for our Military & Veterans.
What We Provide
Clearway offers all eligible employees working 20+ hours per week a comprehensive menu of benefits: generous PTO, medical, dental & vision care, HSAs with company contributions, health FSAs, dependent daycare FSAs, commuter benefits, relocation, & a 401(k) plan with employer match, a variety of life & accident insurances, fertility programs, adoption assistance, generous parental leave, tuition reimbursement, & benefits for employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions & domestic partnerships. For more on Clearway benefits, visit our Benefits Website.
Notice to Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances, and regulations for all applicants and employees. We will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to apply and compete for employment opportunities for which they are qualified. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@clearwayenergy.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
All official communication regarding this position will come only from an email address ending with @clearwayenergy.com. If you receive outreach from any other email address claiming to represent Clearway Energy, please do not respond, as it is fraudulent.
Notice to California Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances and regulations for all applicants and employees.
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Who's Hiring
- Werfen2
- South Orange County Community College District2
- Clearway Energy1
- City of Federal Way1
- JOHANSON TECHNOLOGY1
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- Education2
- Medical Devices2
- Healthcare & Medical Services2
- Energy1
- Construction & Real Estate1
Entry Level IT Systems Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level it systems specialist job?
Employers hiring at this level look for hands-on experience with hardware troubleshooting, operating systems, and networking basics, whether gained through coursework, a home lab, or an internship. Certifications like CompTIA A+, Network+, or Microsoft fundamentals give entry level candidates a concrete edge. Tailor your resume to highlight specific systems you have configured or problems you have resolved, even in a school or volunteer context.
Which companies hire entry level it systems specialists?
Companies hiring entry level it systems specialists right now include Werfen, South Orange County Community College District, and Clearway Energy, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a broad mix of employers, including managed service providers, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and government contractors that need reliable on-site and remote systems support.
Are there remote entry level it systems specialist jobs?
Yes, though many entry level roles involve some on-site work given the hands-on nature of systems support. About 0% of entry level it systems specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, so candidates open to hybrid arrangements will find the widest range of options at this stage.
Are these new grad it systems specialist jobs?
Yes, these listings include new grad, recent graduate, and junior it systems specialist roles. A new grad friendly posting typically welcomes candidates with zero to two years of experience and values internships, academic projects, or a personal portfolio over a long professional history. Look for postings that list preferred rather than required experience, or that mention training programs for early-career hires.
Which industries hire the most entry level it systems specialists?
Entry Level it systems specialist roles concentrate in Education, Medical Devices, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors drive consistent hiring at the entry level because they depend on large, distributed infrastructure that requires continuous support, maintenance, and troubleshooting from junior team members.