NV Energy · 1 day ago
Sr Platform Systems Admin
Las Vegas, NV
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expNV Energy is one of the premier energy companies in the West, providing electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada. The Sr Platform Systems Admin leads and develops technical solutions for business problems, ensuring the reliability of business-critical applications and integration processes while managing projects related to new systems and architecture.
EnergyNatural ResourcesRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
Holds primary technical responsibility for software development and enhancements as well as system reliability of business-critical applications and integration processes
Acts as the technical lead for projects related to the development of new systems, architecture, applications or technology capabilities in support of business goals
Works with stakeholders on interpretation/translation of functional requirements into system requirements
Implements architecture, solution design, and development of core platforms utilizing distributed computing fundamentals, reactive principles and scalable architectures delivering easy to operate, highly available and reliable systems via automated testing and post deployment Creates appropriate technical artifacts to support development and operations support within SDLC guidelines including documentation of installation and administration of products and architecture/application diagrams and logic flows
Upgrades and maintains application related infrastructure – servers, databases, deployment pipelines from code and the application platform for web and mobile applications along with related internal and vendor partner system integrations and services
Develops and Integrates diagnostic monitoring, logging and metrics frameworks into the application and platform. Validates application usability and monitors system stability, ensuring that all operational tasks run error-free and application performance is optimal
Supports deployment of application resources and releases including services, containers, test suites
Establishes CI/CD pipelines or integrates with existing pipelines for deployment and builds automation and scripts for day-to-day automation
Manages incidents to ensure all incidents are reported, documented, analyzed, diagnosed and a root cause is found. Provides technical expertise in diagnosing and debugging issues within production systems
Recommends and coordinates establishment of governance and security models around the application environment and implements approved models
Ensures alignment with Corporate standards and strategic technology decisions. Maintains and improves technology proficiency with evolving technologies to achieve desired technical and business outcomes
Stays current on technologies, platforms, and relevant certification. Provides training and mentoring to other IT staff and business users at all levels of the organization. Finds ways to spread learning across the organization (gives technical talks, presentations, etc.)
Learns, evaluates, recommends and adapts to new technologies and techniques
Requires availability for periodic on call responsibilities
Leads the evaluation, planning and implementation of applications and systems of business and operating departments
Works closely with IT and Business Area leadership to define and implement IT-wide application and related infrastructure vision and long-term strategy in support of business objectives
Leads software projects from department-specific to, enterprise-wide and customer- and vendor-facing implementations which includes providing estimates on projects including assessing and mitigating risk and managing project budgets as well internal and consulting resources for any size projects or software
Performs project planning, system analysis, software design and coding, support of system/user testing, documentation, implementation and research activities as necessary for software engineering projects
Leads technical proofs of concept and develops evaluation matrices through final recommendation, including hands-on execution where needed
Performs ongoing capacity planning for critical infrastructure. Develops business cases and recommends system solutions and architectures. Leads RFP efforts from gathered business and system requirements
Develops customized presentations, demonstrations, prototypes, and architecture diagrams to prove a solution's business value to technical and business stakeholders
Conducts security architecture design reviews and threat modeling
Leads the IT application area effort on security audits and compliance reviews
Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company
Performs related duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited school in engineering, computer science, information systems or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience
Ten or more years of related experience, including 5 years of related progressive work experiences in software development
Demonstrated technical knowledge of modern programming and IT architecture concepts including cloud native design, microservices, containerization; cloud model architectures and distributed, high volume computing design; designing and deploying applications and architectures for resiliency and continuous availability; working with event driven streaming architectures; developing diagnostic and configuration tools to improve deployment and operation of web apps, mobile apps, and 3rd party integrations; virtualized infrastructure and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Technical experience with Linux and OS tools and monitoring, containers and orchestration technologies, DevOps via CI/CD, automated configuration, provisioning and deployment tools
Hands-on experience of relational (Oracle, PL/SQL/Postgres) and no SQL databases (Couchbase) upgrades and security/application patching
Demonstrated skills such as: Communicate effectively via multiple channels (written and verbal) including composing and delivering executive level presentations and communicating with OS administrators in identifying and resolving issues related to highly visible/customer facing 24x7 enterprise applications
Problem solving skills, initiative, and the ability to thrive under pressure and with changes in requirements
Takes ownership of platform/application health checks on 24x7 enterprise applications
Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple issues and projects concurrently
Company
NV Energy
NV Energy is an Electric services company which provides Electricity and Natural Gas.
1001-5000 employees
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President and CEO
Mike Behrens
VP & Chief Financial Officer
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