Data Platform Engineer
Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94616, USA
Listed on 2026-11-04
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Database Administrator, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Azure
Technology & Security delivers secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise platforms that support critical business applications, infrastructure services, cloud operations, automation, and emerging technology enablement.
Requisition # 174343
Job Category:
Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit:
Technology & Security
Work Type:
Hybrid
Job Location:
Oakland
Technology & Security delivers secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise platforms that support critical business applications, infrastructure services, cloud operations, automation, and emerging technology enablement.
Position SummaryThe Data Platform Engineer (DPE) builds, administers, and supports modern data and database infrastructure that enables advanced business capabilities across AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse), and Azure Local (SQL Managed Instance). The DPE manages cloud storage services, including AWS (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx), Azure (Blob Storage, Azure Files, Managed Disks, Data Lake Storage), and Azure Local (Storage Spaces Direct, Azure Managed Disks).
The role focuses on designing reliable data pipelines and data structures that support analytics, AI, and machine learning workloads, while also providing project database administration and support for Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases.
The DPE also integrates AI capabilities into database platforms to improve automation, optimization, and predictive maintenance. The role includes developing AI-driven workflows that support database maintenance, performance tuning, and data cleansing.
Infrastructure provisioning for database and storage resources is managed through Terraform, including multi-cloud resource provisioning, lifecycle policies, encryption, replication, and access control as code. Deployment automation is implemented through Azure Dev Ops pipelines, including database schema migrations, storage provisioning, backup validation, and environment promotion from DEV to PROD.
PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.
This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.
The hourly rate for this position ranges from $49.04 to $77.88.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and 1-2 days per week at our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.
Data Platform and Engineering
- Build, test, and deploy data solutions and data pipelines for relational databases, data lakes, and data warehouses.
- Build and implement data integrity, data cleansing, and data retention processes.
- Create and manage data objects within cloud storage services.
- Collect, review, and analyze data to support operational reliability and performance optimization.
- Partner with application teams to identify, analyze, and resolve data inconsistencies.
- Assist in implementing data quality controls, validation rules, reconciliation checks, schema drift handling, and automated exception reporting to improve trust in downstream analytics, AI, and reporting workloads.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code modules and reusable deployment patterns for databases, storage accounts, networking dependencies, monitoring policies, backup configuration, replication, and environment promotion.
- Support database and storage migrations from legacy or on-premises platforms to cloud-native architectures, including assessment, dependency mapping, cutover planning, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.
- Provide project support for Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases in production and non-production environments.
- Assist with the installation, configuration, patching, and upgrading of SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, job-related discipline, or equivalent experience
- 2 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, database support, or related Information Technology functions
- 1 year of experience supporting cloud…
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