Principal Domain Engineer Enterprise Network (Hybrid Schedule)

About Us

At SoCalGas, we believe that every Californian deserves a resilient energy future.  We are working to achieve that future by empowering California to reach its sustainability goals through innovation, collaboration, and decarbonization. As our state's energy needs change, we will be there providing reliable energy that is clean, safe, and affordable to our 22 million customers.

In addition to helping shape the future of hydrogen technology and clean energy, as an employee of SoCalGas you'll also enjoy an aggressive total compensation plan, multiple upward mobility opportunities and the ability to find a true work life balance.   We also strive to reflect the communities we serve by attracting top talent and maintaining a diverse workforce.

  To discover more about how rewarding it is to work here, we invite you to visit these pages on our website: Our Mission; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Sustainability, In the Community, and Employee Benefits. Join SoCalGas today to share in our mission to build the cleanest, safest, and most innovative energy company in America!

Primary Purpose

The Principal Domain Engineer leads provisioning and configuration of one or more complex systems, platforms, or networks, with a focus on those with significant dependencies and potential impacts to other systems, applications, and teams. Knowledgeable in multiple distinct areas of infrastructure, security, or operations, builds, runs, and maintains critical IT infrastructure, making it available on a self-service basis to agile product teams, and ensuring reliability of IT systems and infrastructure.

Works with Contractors through external vendor manager directly or their back-office support for any assigned work, to coordinate status meetings with external vendor manager to review progress and quality of assigned work. Assists as needed with providing company protocols, scope of work, and contract adjustments.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains high-performance, fault-tolerant (i.e., resilient, and able to continue operating in event of failure of one or more components), secure and scalable technology. Oversees installation, configuration, and maintenance of technology systems and applications relevant to specialized domain where a domain is defined as an organized set of components based on technology, business, or organizational similarities typically with significant technology trends impacting its environment (e.g., Cloud, Cybersecurity). Leads in creation of processes and templates for implementations related to area of responsibility.
  
  Creates appropriate documentation for all development within domain. Implements high risk and/or scalable technology changes according to delivery framework, for business-critical functional areas while following established designs and configurations. Provides consultation to product teams on engineering and operational topics relevant to area of responsibility, providing expertise related to specific systems and integrations.
  
  Identifies risks and impacts of product's development. Provides input and oversight where needed for development of applications and systems. Exercises considerable latitude and initiative to solve challenging technical problems and influence technological maturity across team and group.
  
  Leads long-term initiatives in area of expertise, collaborating with multiple teams and stakeholders to develop technology and systems. Anticipates and manages risks to drive team success. Ensures effective management of defects and unresolved incidents, and drives continuous improvement in engineering practices across organization.

• Leads analysis, diagnosis and repair of technology systems, platforms, an/or networks, ensuring adequate performance and capacity management. Leads triage and issue resolution for escalated activities, applying technical expertise and deep knowledge of domain to identify root causes, and identify solutions.
  
  Plans all activities associated with support and maintenance of technology platforms, systems and IT infrastructure within area of responsibility. Provides subject matter expertise in highly specialized areas of technology related to IT infrastructure, security, platforms, databases, and enterprise systems. Provides operational oversight of timeliness and quality of vendors' deliverables providing maintenance and support of technology and systems. Provides input into Technology Lifecycle Roadmap through ongoing discovery, analysis, and assessment.

• Drives selection of technology (systems, platforms, or networks) to deliver needed capabilities. Analyzes new technology to identify and mitigate risks.
  
  Plans system, platform, or network enhancements, taking into account dependencies between technology systems, potential risks of implementation, and adherence to corporate standards and security policies. Drives identification and mitigation of dependencies and risks associated with system or platform they are responsible for to meet performance needs. Partners with architects to ensure adherence to overall architecture and standards. Contributes to development of a self-service model for platforms and technology services that empowers development teams and drives efficiency.

• Participates in scrum ceremonies (i.e., the 5 ceremonies involved in Scrum methodology: daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives), acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), informs sprint planning which is the initial planning event that begins a sprint and defines what can be delivered in a sprint. Actively supports product teams in writing user stories and defining user story acceptance criteria where their expertise is applicable. A user story is a unit of work that is delivered within a sprint, typically captured with a specific format including acceptance criteria that determine when the story can be accepted as complete.

• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

$118900 - $178400 / year

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