Senior Cloud Engineer - Solutions Architect

 DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: Not Applicable

Hybrid Role: This role is hybrid, with an established schedule of in-person work required at an assigned work location. Any remote work is expected to be performed from an employee’s primary residence, unless allowed (or prohibited) through the Company’s remote work guidelines.

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

Leads the company’s digital factory by defining cloud strategy for automating, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure and services. Oversees application development and hosting, spanning architecture, engineering, deployment, and operational management of cloud environments. Partners with product and platform teams to enable complex, cross‑business digital initiatives and provides guidance to less experienced engineers. This individual contributor role (span of control: 0) blends solution architecture and senior cloud engineering, combining strategic platform and solution design with hands‑on cloud operations and infrastructure automation. Operating at the intersection of cloud, data, applications, and platform strategy, the role translates business requirements into platform capabilities, sets technical direction, guides engineering teams, and ensures systems are scalable, secure, and efficient.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads development of standards and/or cloud vendor product selections for each infrastructure tower in coordination with traditional engineering and network teams
• Develops and implements cloud automation strategies for automating and deploying cloud infrastructure
• Oversees and manages development and operations (DevOps) automation, including set-up and configuration of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes for digital factory products
• Configures and provisions next generation information technology (NGI) and physical stacks in private cloud environment, including rack-level design and other support activities
• Improves cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit impacts, including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure robustness of the cloud infrastructure
• Oversees capacity across public and private cloud resource pools, including automating scale down/up of environments
• Provides guidance to less experienced cloud developers in optimizing and automating cloud engineering activities (e.g., real time migration, provisioning, and deployment)

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• This is a multi-track base requirement job; education and experience requirements can be satisfied through one of the following three options:
  • Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR
  • Associate degree and 8 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR
  • High school diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies