Cloud Storage Platform Engineer (Hybrid, AI-Driven)

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland is seeking a Storage Platform Engineer to design and operate data infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premise, focusing on reliable storage pipelines and AI-enabled optimization.

You will provision storage, manage recovery, implement security, and collaborate with cross-functional teams using Terraform and Azure DevOps for DevOps pipelines; hybrid work with 1-2 days in Oakland.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or related Information Technology functions.
• 1 year of experience supporting cloud technologies, cloud services, infrastructure automation, or cloud-based operating environments.
• AWS Certified Data Engineer or Azure Data Engineer or equivalent cloud platform certification

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and support enterprise storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Support PG&E-approved block/SAN storage platforms and related fabric technologies.
• Administer and support PG&E-approved NAS/file storage platforms (PowerScale/Isilon, OneFS features).
• Provision, expand, reclaim, and optimize storage resources to support apps, databases, and analytics.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, latency, throughput, and replication using storage management/AIOps tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage incidents across arrays, fabrics, file systems, cloud storage accounts, and backups.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and improve storage reliability.
• Implement storage protection, encryption, retention, and ransomware resilience.
• Apply storage security controls including RBAC, encryption, and secure key management.
• Coordinate with security, governance, and compliance teams for audits and data classification.
• Develop automation, scripts, IaC modules, and reusable deployment patterns.
• Plan and execute storage lifecycle activities including upgrades and migrations.
• Support migrations from legacy storage to cloud-native/hybrid architectures.

Skills

Cloud Storage

Terraform

Azure DevOps

AWS Storage

Scripting

AI/ML workflows

AIOps tools

Storage Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Dell PowerScale/Isilon

Cisco NDFC

IBM Storage Insights

Dell InsightIQ

Dell AIOps

SAN/NAS

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland is seeking a Storage Platform Engineer to design and operate data infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premise, focusing on reliable storage pipelines and AI-enabled optimization.

You will provision storage, manage recovery, implement security, and collaborate with cross-functional teams using Terraform and Azure DevOps for DevOps pipelines; hybrid work with 1-2 days in Oakland.