Senior IT Engineer Platform Engineering

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow A position at Xcel Energy could be just what youre looking for.

Position Summary

The Sr. IT Engineer Platform Engineering is a key technical contributor responsible for building operating and evolving Xcel Energys cloud platform and infrastructure services. This role owns the reliability scalability and automation of our platform footprintdesigning the guardrails tooling and infrastructure that enable delivery teams to move quickly while maintaining strong security compliance and operational excellence. You will support the cloud platform capabilities that power Xcel Energys digital operations ensuring stability and security across our multitenant cloud this role you will partner closely with architecture security and engineering teams to influence platform strategy modernize infrastructure patterns and drive adoption of bestinclass cloud capabilities. Your work directly improves system reliability cost efficiency developer experience and the simplicity of the cloud operating model across the organization.

Essential Responsibilities

Solution Delivery & Platform Engineering

Design build and maintain core cloud infrastructure across compute networking storage IAM and shared platform services. Develop secure automated and auditable environments using Terraform and InfrastructureasCode best practices. Lead platform and system design activities in alignment with Enterprise Architecture Security Compliance and operational requirements. Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver highimpact platform capabilities that increase reliability scalability performance and developer velocity. Contribute to initiatives in containerization observability cost optimization and AI platform enablement while influencing architectural direction and platform strategy across the organization.

Operations & Reliability Engineering

Operate and optimize AWS environments to ensure availability performance efficiency and capacity readiness. Continuously monitor and maintain system health while identifying technical debt and operational risks. Troubleshoot complex distributed system issues across compute storage networking containers and identity layers. Support daily cloud operations including incident response problem management scalability improvements and quota/capacity planning. Implement and maintain monitoring logging alerting and compliance controls in partnership with security and operations teams. Ensure all infrastructure follows cloud security best practices including least privilege secrets management vulnerability handling and policy enforcement.

Subject Matter Expertise

Stay current with emerging trends in cloud platforms Kubernetes DevOps security and infrastructure automation and apply this knowledge to continuously evolve the platform. Serve as a subject matter expert for AWS services such as EC2 VPC S3 RDS Route 53 IAM and ECS/EKS. Provide technical leadership and introduce innovative ideas that strengthen platform reliability reduce cost to deliver improve developer experience and advance sustainability across the cloud ecosystem.

Relationship Management & Leadership

Mentor and guide engineers to promote strong engineering practices and operational excellence. Conduct peer reviews approve technical designs and provide clear technical guidance to stakeholders. Partner effectively across architecture product data platform and security teams to deliver cohesive and efficient solutions. Oversee vendor activities related to the design delivery and operation of cloud services ensuring alignment with organizational standards and platform objectives.

Minimum Requirements

• Ten years of related functional experience.
• Bachelors degree in technology Science Business or related field or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
• Excellent communication skills effective with varying organizational levels and skill set and able to translate between technical and non-technical concepts.
• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results.
• Expertise managing the lifecycle of technical solutions.
• Deep Subject Matter Expertise within the respective system domain products platforms processes and architecture.
• Broad and deep knowledge of technology architecture infrastructure network security and software principles and models.
• Experience working in partnership with internal and external vendors.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise.
• Demonstrated leadership on technical aspects of large-scale projects.
• Experience coaching other developers in system deployment or operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with delivery methodologies (Waterfall Agile Scrum) and operational models (ITIL) Experience and understanding of core IT Service Management functions such as Change Management and Incident Management.

Preferred Requirements:

• Deep technical expertise with AWS services (EC2 EKS VPC networking load balancers S3 IAM Route 53 RDS ECS).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and automated multienvironment infrastructure delivery.
• Handson experience with Kubernetes internals workload orchestration scaling and observability.
• Ability to diagnose complex distributed systems across compute network and storage boundaries.
• Strong cloud security fundamentals: least privilege secrets management policy enforcement and compliance controls.
• Linux system administration experience with strong scripting and automation skills; proficient in version control (e.g. GitLab) and CI/CD fundamentals.
• Familiarity with integrating Ansible Automation Platform into infrastructure workflows using source control CI/CD pipelines and terraform for automated compliant deployments.
• Demonstrated leadership in designing and delivering scalable platform solutions.
• Experience with delivery methodologies (Agile Scrum Waterfall) and ITSM/ITIL practices.
• Excellent collaboration communication analytical and problemsolving skills.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If youre ready to be a part of something big we invite you to join our team.

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