Data Platform Engineer: Cloud Data & AI Pipelines

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and operate modern data infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and AzureLocal. You will manage cloud storage, data pipelines, AI integration, and automation through Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.

This role emphasizes data reliability, performance, and scalable analytics to support AI workloads, machine learning, and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or related IT 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 certification.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and deploy data solutions and data pipelines for relational databases, data lakes, and data warehouses.
• Build and implement data integrity, data cleansing, and data retention processes.
• Create data objects within cloud storage services.
• Troubleshoot, maintain, and install software components related to databases.
• Collect, review, and analyze data to support operational reliability and performance optimization.
• Partner with application teams to identify, analyze, and resolve data inconsistencies.
• Assist in data quality controls, validation rules, reconciliation checks, schema drift handling, and automated exception reporting to improve trust in downstream analytics, AI, and reporting workloads.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code modules and reusable deployment patterns for databases, storage accounts, networking dependencies, monitoring policies, backup configuration, replication, and environment promotion.
• Plan and execute database and storage migrations from legacy or on-premises platforms to cloud-native architectures, including assessment, dependency mapping, cutover planning, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud operations

Infrastructure as code

SQL proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

SQL databases

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and operate modern data infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and AzureLocal. You will manage cloud storage, data pipelines, AI integration, and automation through Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.

This role emphasizes data reliability, performance, and scalable analytics to support AI workloads, machine learning, and decision-making.