Storage Platform Engineer

Requisition ID # 174345 

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) 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

Qualifications Minimum:

Desired:

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