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Primary Purpose:

The Principal Domain Engineer – Cloud is a hands-on senior technical leader accelerating Cloud journey by partnering with application and engineering teams to leverage innovative technologies and drive business value. Operating at forefront of Cloud technology adoption, ensures successful implementation, stability, and availability of public and private Cloud platforms that support organization’s needs. Coordinates and governs Cloud initiatives across enterprise, leading execution of organization’s strategy for moving critical IT infrastructure to the Cloud, to align with industry-leading practices. Identifies, evaluates, and advises on strategic prioritization of technology opportunities to further accelerate Cloud capabilities to meet future organizational needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops technical improvements, automation, implementation of software programs by leading collaboration with teams. Delivers software to improve availability, scalability, and efficiency of organization’s services. Coordinates and informs teams efforts to meet implementation, configuration, and maintenance objectives across Cloud Platforms, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), ensuring compliance, value delivered, and reliability for business. Aligns Cloud teams’ efforts with business-critical areas and strategic drivers to inform development, implementation, and necessary technology changes. Provides expertise and guidance related to Cloud engineering and automation to management, internal product teams, customers, and executive leadership partners.
• Defines technology capabilities needed in the future for Cloud systems and solutions. Identifies and mitigates risks related to deployment. Researches and evaluates latest innovation and best practices. Enhances Cloud-based network design with focus on security, high availability, reliability, increasing performance ability, automation and resiliency to meet business’ needs. Co-designs with architects to define Cloud alignment with overall architecture and standards. Contributes to future improvement of software delivery processes and operations (e.g., Cloud enablement), building of microservices, adoption of DevSecOps methodologies and automation tools, and implementation of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices. Microservices are loosely coupled/related applications that interact with each other through Application Programming Interfaces (e.g., a sales order application that communicates with billing applications). Champions a self-service model for platforms and technology services that empowers product teams and drives efficiency.
• Monitors infrastructure and application service performance across Cloud platforms, acting as senior-level escalation point for production monitoring support and incident response, including internal and vendor related teams. Creates, manages, and uses dashboards that enable continuous monitoring and health checks of applications and underlying infrastructure. Improves quality of services to drive continuous improvement efforts. Reviews issue resolutions for improvement opportunities and evaluates areas of risk for further support and focus. Champions adoption of automation solutions for testing, failover, rollback, and quality checks. Defines strategies and solutions to proactively address risk, prioritizing service improvements and enhancements.
• Participates in scrum ceremonies (i.e., the 5 ceremonies involved in Scrum methodology: daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives), acts as a Cloud domain subject matter expert and key senior stakeholder, to inform the initial planning event that begins a sprint and defines what can be delivered in a sprint (sprint planning), and product teams’ backlogs (i.e., a list of prioritized work that is well defined and ready to be delivered within a two-week sprint).
• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, related field or equivalent training and/or experience.
• 5 years – related experience working in IT solution delivery and/or IT infrastructure, with experience in systems planning, building, and troubleshooting or working in software engineering developing applications and solutions.
• 3 years – experience working with Cloud technology, with experience in planning, building, and troubleshooting Cloud-based platforms, technology systems, and/or applications.
• Cloud Delivery – Familiarity with different cloud computing delivery models, knowledge of cloud-based solutions for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and ability to deliver cloud-based technologies and systems.
• Cloud Operations and Maintenance – Ability to maintain and administer a Cloud network, including acquiring, testing, installing, patch management, replacing or upgrading both hardware and software features.
• Cloud Engineering – Ability to deliver highly scalable software in the cloud, design for resiliency and redundancy, and leverage expertise in relevant design, processes and techniques to develop and plan server architecture for cloud infrastructure including components such as cloud management, consumer resources, elasticity, metering, hybrid capabilities, and disaster recovery.
• Development Languages – Knowledge and understanding of multiple IT programming languages and ability to write code and develop applications using those languages, e.g., Go, Shell, Python.
• IT Service Management – Ability to manage IT services lifecycle (service strategy, design, transition, operation, continuous service improvement) and use DevOps methodology and tools to analyze results.
• Infrastructure and Hosting – Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure concepts, e.g., firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, etc.
• Relevant Cloud Certifications: One or more Developer certifications from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or equivalent certification or training.
• Must reside in Southern California or be willing to relocate upon hire.
• We offer a hybrid work environment. Although the schedule may vary, typically this will allow you to work from the office two to three days per week and work remotely on the remaining workdays.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years – programming experience, including experience with Dev Ops engineering, designing for high systems availability, driving system orchestration and automation, architectural standardization, and test automation.
• DevSecOps Methodologies – Strong understanding of processes and concepts to drive the integration of development, operations, and security into enterprise software development to produce better outcomes.
• Configuration Management – Knowledge of configuration management techniques, and ability to identify, control and change work production relationships and migration between environments.
• Continuous Configuration Automation Tools – Knowledge of platforms and applications designed to assist or enable continuous configuration automation, e.g., Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Principles of Lightweight Architecture – Knowledge related to lightweight and cloud-based approaches to IT infrastructure and configuration management, including an ability to apply techniques such as containerization, microservices, and API gateways.

May require work outside of normal business hours and/or 24/7 response availability for system and application maintenance, enhancements, production releases and/or operational emergencies.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

Note: SDG&E strives to ensure that employees are paid equitably and competitively. Starting salaries may vary based on factors such as relevant experience, qualifications, and education.

SDG&E offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond base salary. This position is eligible for an annual performance-based incentive (bonus) as well as other merit-based recognition. Company benefits include health and welfare (medical, dental, vision), employer contributions to retirement benefits, life insurance, paid time off, as well as other company offerings such as tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, and employee assistance programs.