Cloud Enablement Architect, Principal

Requisition ID # 164807 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

For over 115 years, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been a part of California’s communities, delivering clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy.

 

Join the PG&E Infrastructure & Cloud Services team as a Cloud Architect, Principal to influence how we modernize our application landscape, embedding FinOps capabilities and advancing our practice as we mature onto multi-cloud platforms.

 

• PG&E is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric companies in the United States. Based in Oakland, our 25,000 employees work throughout our Northern and Central California service area, stretching from Eureka to Bakersfield and from the Pacific Ocean to the Sierra Nevada. We’re ranked among the nation’s cleanest utilities and we’re driving change in the utility industry to support the transition to a cleaner energy economy.
• There’s strength in leading the way. A greater good in the work we do. And an optimism about what’s to come. 
• This is an environment that’s brimming with innovation and exciting possibilities. Join us and discover the brighter future we can create together.

 

Position Summary

The Cloud Architect, Principal role within PG&E’s Infrastructure & cloud Services team drives business value and cloud adoption through solutioning in two key areas: determining cloud fitment to modernize and migrate applications to public cloud, and by architecting for optimal cost driving FinOps maturity.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland, CA approximately once per week, or more, based on business needs.

 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

 

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

 

A reasonable salary range is:

 

Bay Area Minimum: $155,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $264,000.00
 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Works in partnership with Cloud Intake processes and stakeholders using established Application Decision Framework to contribute and align with the strategic direction and relevant cloud architectures, technology standards and design patterns.
• Designs and implements complex architectural solutions using cloud design principles, best practices and industry standards
• Leads determining disposition, emphasizing modernizing and re-platforming and re-architecture of mission and business critical applications to Cloud
• Leads unique and complex analysis of application portfolios, identifies dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assesses migration feasibility
• Partners with IT organization to integrate cloud infrastructure / network environment with corporate infrastructure / data center environment
• Leads the design of complex reference Architecture and provides input to the DevOps team for implementation of codified stacks that meet the needs of the applications
• Leads unique and complex cost/benefit modelling with mapping to business KPI's
• Educates team to design and implement architectures based on FinOps best practices
• Provides hands-on technical coaching to accelerate Cloud learning across the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE
• Ensures that the design, development and delivery of infrastructure in the Cloud incorporate