Associate Power Generation Technical Services Specialist - Cloud Quality

Requisition  Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description The Associate Technical Services Specialist is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, security, and operational readiness of cloud-hosted applications and supporting cloud environments. This role combines cloud engineering and administration, quality engineering, test automation, Dev Ops practices, and application reliability to improve how software is developed, validated, deployed, and operated. This individual partners with application developers and technical teams to manage cloud environments, automate testing and deployments, establish quality controls, improve observability, and proactively identify issues before they impact production.

Responsibilities Include:

Cloud Engineering & Administration   Administer & Support Cloud Environments across development, testing, and production, ensuring reliable application hosting and operations. Provision, Configure & Troubleshoot Cloud Resources, including compute, storage, connectivity, access, and application configurations. Monitor Cloud Performance & Reliability across availability, capacity, performance, and overall infrastructure health. Automate Cloud Operations & Infrastructure Management using infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation to improve consistency and efficiency.

Quality Engineering & Test Automation   Design & Maintain Automated Testing Capabilities for cloud-hosted applications across development, testing, and production environments. Develop Comprehensive Test Automation covering APIs, integrations, regression, smoke, UI, and end-to-end application workflows. Build Reusable Testing Frameworks & Increase Coverage across critical application functionality, integrations, and cloud environments. Improve Quality & Reduce Manual Testing by identifying recurring defects, automating regression prevention, and expanding repeatable test execution.

CI/CD & Deployment Automation  Integrate Automated Testing & Quality Controls into CI/CD pipelines to improve release consistency and application quality. Establish Automated Quality Gates & Validation through pre-deployment and post-deployment testing for production releases. Develop Reusable Deployment & Recovery Patterns across applications, including automated rollback and recovery capabilities. Troubleshoot Pipeline & Deployment Failures across application, configuration, infrastructure, and cloud environments.

Cloud & Application Reliability   Implement Application & Cloud Observability through health checks, synthetic monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting. Monitor Critical Services & Dependencies to proactively identify reliability risks, performance issues, and single points of failure. Support Incident Analysis & Prevention through root-cause analysis and preventative controls addressing production incidents and recurring issues. Automate Remediation & Recovery to improve application resiliency, reduce manual intervention, and accelerate service restoration.

Release & Production Readiness   Establish Production-Readiness & Release-Quality Criteria to ensure applications meet defined standards before deployment. Support Production Deployments & Release Validation to confirm successful implementation and operational readiness. Ensure Operational Resiliency Before Release by verifying…