Storage Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland seeks a Storage Platform Engineer to support enterprise storage across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring secure, high-performing block, file, SAN, NAS, and cloud storage for critical applications.

You will work with Dell PowerMax/PowerFlex/PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Cisco MDS, AWS/Azure storage, and automation with Terraform, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and CI/CD to optimize provisioning, performance, and data protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 2 years of storage, infrastructure, or related IT experience.
• 1 year experience with cloud technologies and enterprise storage.
• AWS or Azure data engineer certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise block, file, SAN, NAS, object, and cloud storage environments.
• Provision, expand, reclaim, and optimize storage for applications, databases, and virtual infrastructure.
• Monitor storage capacity, performance, availability, replication, and SAN connectivity.
• Troubleshoot storage, SAN fabric, file-system, connectivity, capacity, and performance issues.
• Develop or contribute to automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, scripting, REST APIs, and CI/CD.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional teamwork

Automation mindset

Cloud awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or related

AWS/Azure cloud certification

Tools

Dell PowerMax

PowerFlex

Terraform

Python

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Department Overview

Technology & Security delivers secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise platforms that support critical business applications, infrastructure services, cloud operations, automation, and emerging technology enablement.

Requisition ID # 174345

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Position Summary

The Storage Platform Engineer (SPE) supports enterprise storage infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role provides reliable, secure, and high-performing block, file, SAN, NAS, and cloud storage services supporting business-critical applications, databases, virtual infrastructure, analytics, and emerging workloads.

The SPE works with technologies such as Dell PowerMax, PowerFlex, PowerStore, PowerScale/Isilon, IBM FlashSystem/SVC, Cisco MDS, and AWS and Azure storage services. Candidates are not expected to have experience with every technology listed; experience with comparable enterprise storage platforms is valued.

The role focuses on storage provisioning, performance, capacity management, data protection, troubleshooting, lifecycle management, migrations, and automation while partnering with application, database, compute, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and vendor teams.

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

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $49.04 to $77.88.

This position is hybrid, working remotely and 1–2 days per week at the Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Job Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise block, file, SAN, NAS, object, and cloud storage environments.


• Provision, expand, reclaim, and optimize storage for applications, databases, virtual infrastructure, and file services.


• Monitor storage capacity, performance, availability, replication, and SAN connectivity.


• Troubleshoot storage, SAN fabric, file-system, connectivity, capacity, and performance issues.


• Support enterprise platforms such as Dell PowerMax, PowerFlex, PowerStore, PowerScale/Isilon, IBM FlashSystem/SVC, Cisco MDS, AWS/Azure storage, or comparable technologies.


• Manage storage protection capabilities including snapshots, replication, cloning, encryption, retention, and recovery validation.


• Support storage security, access controls, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration standards.


• Plan and execute upgrades, migrations, technology refreshes, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle activities.


• Partner with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, cloud, and vendor teams to deliver reliable storage services.


• Develop or contribute to automation and Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD.


• Explore opportunities to improve storage operations through automation, AIOps, and emerging AI capabilities.

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience


• 2 years of experience in storage, infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or a related IT discipline


• 1 year experience with cloud technologies, enterprise storage, SAN/NAS, systems infrastructure, or comparable technologies


• AWS Certified Data Engineer or Azure Data Engineer or equivalent cloud platform certification

Desired

• Experience with one or more enterprise storage technologies such as Dell, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi Vantara, or comparable platforms.


• Working knowledge of block/file storage, capacity, performance, availability, and data protection concepts


• Demonstrated troubleshooting and cross-functional collaboration skills


• Experience with SAN fabric technologies such as Cisco MDS.


• Exposure to AWS or Azure storage services.


• Experience with storage monitoring, performance analysis, replication, data protection, migrations, or capacity planning.


• Familiarity with Terraform, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or other infrastructure automation technologies.


• Familiarity with CI/CD and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.


• Knowledge of operating systems, virtualization, databases, containers, or backup technologies.


• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.


• Exposure to AIOps, AI/ML infrastructure, or predictive monitoring is a plus.