IT Systems Engineer, Senior

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Oakland, CA

8d•$114,000 - $182,000•Hybrid

About The Position

PG&E’s Grid and Control Center Technology department is undertaking a major transformation, implementing Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) solutions while supporting legacy applications in electric distribution, transmission, and gas operations. The Senior IT Systems Engineer helps ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of IT systems, including in-house applications, off-the-shelf software, servers, databases, and networks. This role provides operational oversight and decision support for ADMS environment planning, readiness, availability, and governance. It assesses the effects of planned changes and maintenance on ADMS environments, supports release readiness and capacity planning, coordinates readiness information across technical and vendor teams, and develops dashboards and reports on environment health and change activity. The position also supports performance monitoring, security audits, backups, and recovery processes aligned with PG&E disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. The position is hybrid, working from a remote office and PG&E’s Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within PG&E’s service territory. The stated reasonably expected salary range is $114,000–$148,000, with a Bay Area range of $114,000–$182,000. The role is also eligible to participate in PG&E discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of experience in software or system engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) or similar mission-critical operational technology (OT) platforms.
Experience with systems security principles.
Experience in software troubleshooting.
Experience with software management best practices.
Experience in application support.
Experience with IT systems.
ITIL Version 3 certification.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Release Lead to provide operational oversight and decision support for ADMS environment planning, readiness, availability, and governance.
Analyze the impact of planned Change Requests (CRQs), infrastructure changes, network activities, application deployments, and vendor maintenance on ADMS environments, and recommend actions to support release decisions.
Support release planning and readiness reviews by consolidating environment status, risks, dependencies, outages, and competing demands across multiple environments.
Coordinate with application, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, and vendor teams to gather environment readiness information and escalate risks that could affect testing, training, deployments, or releases.
Track environment utilization, planned maintenance windows, patch schedules, system upgrades, data refreshes, and site switch activities to inform release and scheduling decisions.
Develop and maintain environment dashboards, operational scorecards, and reports on environment health, availability, readiness, and change activities.
Provide reporting and analytical support for Change Advisory Board (CAB) reviews, release readiness assessments, environment capacity planning, and post-implementation reviews.
Support continuous improvement of environment management, release governance, reporting, and communication processes through automation, standardization, and improved operational visibility.
Monitor and test system performance, and prepare and deliver system performance statistics and reports.
Support security audits, system backup definition, and recovery processes in accordance with PG&E disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.