Principal Programmer Analyst
Job Location:
Palm Beach, FL - USA
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Job Summary
Requisition ID: 97566
Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S. providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nations most fuel-efficient cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability were redefining whats possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.
Position Specific Description
Position Summary NextEra Energy Resources is seeking a Principal IIoT Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Industrial IoT infrastructure supporting one of the industrys largest renewable energy telemetry platforms. The platform ingests telemetry from hundreds of wind solar battery storage and distributed generation facilities processing more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while delivering highly available data services for operational technology (OT) enterprise analytics AI and business applications. This role serves as a senior technical leader for the Industrial IoT platform responsible for the design operation and continual improvement of the Ignition HiveMQ and AWS infrastructure that powers the Sequoia platform. The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership mentor engineers establish engineering standards lead architecture decisions within their domain and solve complex platform challenges while partnering with other Principal Engineers across the Sequoia ecosystem to deliver a secure resilient and scalable Industrial IoT platform. Primary Responsibilities Technical Leadership Ignition Platform Engineering Serve as the organizations subject matter expert for enterprise Ignition infrastructure including: HiveMQ Platform Engineering Design implement and support highly available enterprise MQTT infrastructure including: AWS Platform Engineering Design deploy automate and support cloud-native infrastructure utilizing: Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation ensuring all infrastructure is automated repeatable version-controlled and aligned with enterprise standards. Platform Reliability & Operations Industrial IoT Technologies Deep expertise with: Monitoring & Observability Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms including: Automation & Infrastructure as Code Develop and maintain automation using: Service Management Experience supporting enterprise operational processes utilizing: Security Working knowledge of: Required Experience Preferred Experience Preferred Certifications Technical Skills Industrial Platforms AWS Technologies Infrastructure Programming & Scripting Leadership Competencies The Principal IIoT Platform Engineer is expected to be a technical leader who elevates the capabilities of the entire engineering organization. The successful candidate will: What Success Looks Like Success in this role is measured by the reliability scalability security and operational maturity of the Industrial IoT platform. The Principal Engineer will help ensure the platform continues to evolve through automation engineering standards resilient architecture and technical mentorship while supporting one of the largest Industrial IoT environments in the utility industry. This individual will play a key role in enabling a platform that reliably processes more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while supporting the continued growth of renewable energy operations and the broader Sequoia ecosystem.
Employees in this position ensure that solutions developed on domain expert platforms conform to application strategy and ensure high availability on multimillion dollar complex mission critical and high volume transactional systems for the business unit. This position includes but is not limited to writing coding testing analyzing configuring debugging and documenting software programs and applications.
- Researches designs documents and modifies software specifications throughout the production life cycle
- Applies Six Sigma methodologies within software applications to help the business unit improve reliability drive efficiencies and reduce costs
- Manages the development of new or existing programs and applications into the technical infrastructure and integration into existing business processes
- Provides technical or functional guidance/leadership and collaborates with work teams onshore/offshore vendors and business unit personnel as needed
- Collaborates with network administrators systems analysts database administrators external vendor support and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
- Provides guidance on relevant system administration tasks including backup/recovery of systems and disaster recovery
- Designs runs and monitors software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors isolating areas for improvement and general debugging
- Conducts research on emerging application development software products languages and standards in support of procurement development and maintenance efforts
- Develops and implements standard build processes and common utilities and tools that are repeatable
- Meets attendance and storm duty requirements and has the ability to work extended hours
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelors or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6 years
- Masters Degree
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
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Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type:Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: Yes if applicable
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