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DTE Energy

Senior Cloud Architect

DTE Energy, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48228


DTE is one of the nation's largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer's homes and Michigan's progress for more than a century.And as Michigan's largest source of renewable energy, we're creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We're also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.

But we're more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job.At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities. When you join us, you'll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone's health, safety, and wellbeing. Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE.Together, we can achieve great things.

Testing Required:

Not Applicable Hybrid Role:

Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location. Emergency Response:

Yes - Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE's emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers. Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Architect supports the architecture for cloud computing environments and provides guidance on the implementation of cloud architecture on complex projects. Works closely with other Cloud Architect team members and collaborates with Cloud Engineers to ensure the cloud strategy is implemented correctly to support the automation and deployment of cloud infrastructure and services. Responsible for architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the underlying logical and physical cloud computing infrastructure for hosting and application development.

Key Accountabilities

* Leads a cross-functional team in the implementation of technical requirements for key architectural drivers of cloud computing and raises technical constraints for resolution and participates in resolution * Supports the design and maintenance of the DTE's cloud based applications and services * Designs complex architecture and transition states to get to end state/vision * Proposes innovative ideas of performing cloud computing functions, products and architectures * Serves as a liaison for vendors, suppliers, and internal teams. * Provides technical input on specific technology components and solutions that satisfy business, technology, security, and regulatory objectives. * Provides technical acumen for cloud services and areas such as cloud application development, scalability, and integration. * Supports and assists with the monitoring of cloud performance, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating with other business units * Supports junior team members in technical and agile principles while working on various product teams to support a myriad of complex digital initiatives across the business. * Provides technical input to support the cloud environments that host DTE cloud applications. * Bechmarks and researches emerging technologies to determine impact to our cloud computing strategy and provide recommendations to leadership.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

This is a multi-track base requirement job; education and experience requirements can be satisfied through one of the following three options: * Bachelor's degree in Information System discipline and 6 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 3 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR * Associate degree in Information System discipline and 8 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 3 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR * High school diploma or GED and 10 years in technology field, inclusive of 3 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies

Other Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert certification or 5 years' experience as a cloud solution architect in Microsoft Azure Hands on experience with IaC tools, Terraform, Packer, OPA, Ansible and GitHub Crafting reusable and modular IaC templates for complex architectures, automated CI/CD pipelines, and championing DevOps practices

Additional requirements include: * Experience supporting and implementing strategies for deploying and automating cloud infrastructure and platform services, including zero downtime deployment strategies such as red/black or blue/green deployments. * Experience supporting and implementing strategies for horizontally and vertically scaling, sync/async, BASE/ACID, multi-zone, and/or multi-region applications. * Substantial understanding of software development lifecycles and cloud economics, including knowledge of consumption-driven total cost of ownership * Knowledgeable in the security implications of public & private cloud infrastructure design * Understanding of network architectures suitable for different cloud topologies with familiarity with SLO, SLA, and OLAs for cloud services and organizations

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision

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At DTE Energy, we are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and a sense of belonging. We seek individuals with a heart for service, a passion to help our communities prosper, and ideas to help shape the future of energy. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law.