Senior Cloud Engineer

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.

Testing Required: Not Applicable

Hybrid Role: This role is hybrid, with an established schedule of in-person work required at an assigned work location. Any remote work is expected to be performed from an employee’s primary residence, unless allowed (or prohibited) through the Company’s remote work guidelines.

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer – System Resiliency is responsible for designing, building, and operating highly reliable, fault-tolerant cloud platforms and applications. This role applies software and systems engineering principles to prevent outages proactively, minimize blast radius, and ensure rapid recovery when failures occur. This engineer treats reliability as a first-class product feature and partners closely with application teams, architecture, platform engineering, security, and operations to embed resiliency patterns, automation, and observability into all critical systems.

Leads the company’s digital factory by setting the cloud strategy for automation and deployment of cloud infrastructure and services. Oversees application development and hosting, including processes involving architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the underlying logical and physical cloud computing infrastructure. Works with multiple product and platform teams to support complex digital initiatives across the business. Guides less experienced team members—Span of control 0; individual contributor.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads development of standards and/or cloud vendor product selections for each infrastructure tower in coordination with traditional engineering and network teams
• Develops and implements cloud automation strategies for automating and deploying cloud infrastructure
• Oversees and manages development and operations (DevOps) automation, including set-up and configuration of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes for digital factory products
• Configures and provisions next generation information technology (NGI) and physical stacks in private cloud environment, including rack-level design and other support activities
• Improves cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit impacts, including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure robustness of the cloud infrastructure
• Oversees capacity across public and private cloud resource pools, including automating scale down/up of environments
• Provides guidance to less experienced cloud developers in optimizing and automating cloud engineering activities (e.g., real time migration, provisioning, and deployment)

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

This is a multi-track base requirement job; education and experience requirements can be satisfied through one of the following three options:

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in the technology field, inclusive of 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR
• Associate degree and 8 years of experience in the technology field, inclusive of 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR 
• High school diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in the technology field, including 4 years with strategy development, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies

Other Qualifications

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or engineering
• Experience developing cloud strategies for automating and deploying cloud infrastructure
• Experience leading the configuration, deployment, and operation of public cloud services, including experience with public cloud providers and related private/public zones, etc.

Other Requirements: 

• Deep understanding of software development lifecycles and cloud economics, including knowledge of consumption-driven total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems. 
• Expertise in applying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to deploy resilient cloud infrastructure, including Terraform and Azure-specific IaC tools (e.g ARM, Bicep) 
• Experience designing and implementing highly available cloud infrastructure, including cross-Availability Zone and cross-region implementations. 
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices. 
• Ability to create and set up automated deployments (e.g., blue/green or red/black) to meet application operational requirements
• Advanced knowledge in infrastructure as code (e.g., DevOps, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of security implications related to public and private cloud infrastructure design
• Advanced knowledge of network architectures suitable for different cloud topologies, with familiarity with user expectations / operational level agreements (OLA) for cloud services
• Advanced knowledge of standard networking protocols and components (e.g., load balancing, etc.)

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.

At DTE Energy, we are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and a sense of belonging. We seek individuals with a heart for service, a passion to help our communities prosper, and ideas to help shape the future of energy. We are proud to be an equal opportunity, employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal and/or state laws.