Storage Platform Engineer

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

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

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.

Position Summary

The Storage Platform Engineer (SPE) builds and supports modern data infrastructure that enables advanced business capabilities across AWS, Azure, and on premise. The SPE manages cloud storage services, including AWS (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx), Azure (Blob Storage, Azure Files, Managed Disks, Data Lake Storage), and Azure Local (Storage Spaces Direct, Azure Managed Disks). The role also supports PG&E enterprise block and file storage platforms used for mission-critical, high-performance, and file-based workloads, including Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerFlex, Dell PowerStore, DellUnity 380F, IBM FlashSystem, IBM SVC, Elastic Cloud Storage, Power Vault Storage, Cisco MDS SAN fabric technologies, and Dell PowerScale/Isilon NAS. The role focuses on designing reliable storage pipelines and storage structures that support analytics, AI, and machine learning workloads. The SPE also integrates AI capabilities into storage platforms to improve automation, optimization, and predictive maintenance.

The role includes developing AI-driven workflows that support storage maintenance and performance tuning. Infrastructure provisioning for storage resources is managed through Terraform, including multi-cloud resource provisioning, lifecycle policies, encryption, replication, and access control as code. Deployment automation is implemented through Azure DevOps pipelines, including storage provisioning, backup validation, and environment promotion from DEV to PROD.

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 from your remote office and 1-2 days per week at our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Job Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and support enterprise storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, including SAN, NAS, object storage, software-defined storage, AWS storage services, Azure storage services, and Azure Local storage capabilities.
• Support PG&E-approved block/SAN storage platforms and related fabric technologies, including Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerFlex, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, IBM SVC, AWS Elastic Block Store, and Cisco MDS SAN switches, ensuring alignment with enterprise storage standards, lifecycle plans, and workload performance requirements.
• Administer and support PG&E-approved NAS/file storage platforms, including Dell PowerScale/Isilon and related OneFS capabilities such as SyncIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, SnapshotIQ, SmartPools, NFS exports, SMB/CIFS shares, access zones, replication, and file-system migration activities.
• Provision, expand, reclaim, and optimize storage resources to support application, database, virtual infrastructure, file services, analytics, and business continuity requirements.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, latency, throughput, IOPS, replication status, SAN fabric status, predictive alerts, and service availability using enterprise storage management and AIOps tools such as Cisco NDFC, IBM Storage Insights, Dell InsightIQ, Dell AIOps, and Dell Secure Connect Gateway.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage incidents across arrays, fabrics, file systems, cloud storage accounts, managed disks, snapshots, replication services, backup dependencies, and connectivity paths.
• Partner with application, database, compute, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and vendor teams to analyze requirements, resolve performance issues, support deployments, and improve storage service reliability.
• Implement storage protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, cloning, encryption, retention policies, immutable storage, and recovery validation to support disaster recovery and ransomware resilience.
• Implement and maintain storage security controls across on-premises and cloud platforms, including role-based access control, least-privilege permissions, encryption at rest and in transit, secure key management, network segmentation, private endpoints, and secure storage configuration standards.
• Partner with cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, and audit teams to support vulnerability remediation, access reviews, logging, monitoring, policy enforcement, data classification, retention requirements, and regulatory compliance for storage services.
• Develop and maintain automation, scripts, infrastructure-as-code modules, and reusable deployment patterns for storage provisioning, monitoring, lifecycle policies, replication, access controls, and environment promotion.
• Plan and execute storage lifecycle activities, including firmware/software upgrades, hardware refreshes, platform migrations, end-of-service-life remediation, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and asset inventory validation.
• Support migration from legacy or on-premises storage platforms to cloud-native and hybrid storage architectures, including assessment, dependency mapping, cutover planning, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science,job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of hands-onexperiencein 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

Desired:

• 3 years of experience with storage technologies
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and services, including EC2, Lambda, Terraform, S3, OCI, and CI/CD, and containers
• Experience with storage, databases, OS, virtualization, and backup technologies
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and team-based delivery practices
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices and tools
• Experience using storage monitoring, management, and AIOps tools such as Cisco NDFC, IBM Storage Insights, Dell InsightIQ, Dell AIOps, and Dell Secure Connect Gateway
• Understanding of the AI development life cycle
• Understanding of machine learning concepts, platforms, and operational workflows
• Ability to deliver work in sprints and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams