Principal Programmer Analyst

NextEra Energy•Palm Beach, FL

About The Position

The role provides senior technical leadership for the Industrial IoT infrastructure supporting the Sequoia renewable-energy telemetry platform. The platform serves wind, solar, battery storage, and distributed generation facilities, processes more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day, and provides highly available data services for operational technology, enterprise analytics, AI, and business applications. The position leads design, operation, and continual improvement of Ignition, HiveMQ, and AWS infrastructure, and partners with Principal Engineers and teams across the Sequoia ecosystem to deliver a secure, resilient, and scalable platform. The position also ensures that solutions developed on domain-expert platforms align with application strategy and deliver high availability for complex, mission-critical, high-volume systems. Work includes writing, coding, testing, analyzing, configuring, debugging, and documenting software programs and applications, and supporting their integration into business processes and technical infrastructure. The role provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, leads architecture decisions, and serves as a senior escalation point for complex platform challenges. The successful candidate will help improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational maturity through resilient architecture, automation, standardization, observability, and technical mentorship. The role supports 24x7 mission-critical production operations and includes attendance and storm-duty requirements, with the ability to work extended hours. NextEra Energy lists relocation as provided if applicable.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
7+ years administering enterprise Ignition environments.
7+ years supporting AWS production environments.
5+ years designing and operating enterprise MQTT platforms.
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
Experience supporting enterprise ServiceNow processes and integrations.
Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Experience supporting 24x7 production environments.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading technical teams.
Experience supporting large-scale Industrial IoT or telemetry platforms.
Experience supporting platforms processing 100+ billion Industrial IoT events per day or equivalent hyperscale distributed systems.
Working knowledge of Zero Trust principles, AWS IAM best practices, certificate lifecycle management, PKI, TLS, cybersecurity hardening, secrets management, least-privilege access, and industrial cybersecurity.
Ability to meet attendance and storm-duty requirements and work extended hours.
High school diploma or GED; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 6+ years of experience, as stated in the general job qualifications.

Nice To Haves

Experience in renewable energy, electric utility operations, power generation, industrial automation, manufacturing, or enterprise cloud platform engineering.
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification.
AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate certification.
AWS Developer – Associate certification.
AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty certification.
Master's degree.
Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt, or Yellow Belt.

Responsibilities

Provide senior technical leadership for the Industrial IoT platform and lead architecture decisions for Ignition, HiveMQ, and AWS.
Mentor engineers across teams, establish engineering standards and operational best practices, and review designs for scalability, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
Lead technical root-cause analysis for critical production incidents and serve as a senior technical escalation point.
Develop platform standards, documentation, and operational procedures; promote automation-first engineering practices.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Operations, Data Engineering, and Application Development teams; evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements.
Design, deploy, manage, upgrade, migrate, tune, secure, and troubleshoot enterprise Ignition infrastructure, including gateways, high availability, redundancy, gateway networking, administration, backups, disaster recovery, certificates, identity providers, tag providers, historian integration, and capacity planning.
Design, implement, and support highly available HiveMQ and MQTT infrastructure, including clustering, replication, performance, load balancing, persistence, store-and-forward, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and Sparkplug B optimization.
Design, deploy, automate, and support AWS infrastructure and services, including networking, compute, messaging, monitoring, identity, secrets, storage, backup, and orchestration services.
Implement and maintain automated, repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
Design highly available and fault-tolerant architectures, eliminate single points of failure, improve resiliency and operational maturity, perform capacity planning, and develop disaster-recovery strategies.
Lead production incident response, create runbooks, improve monitoring and observability, and optimize distributed-system performance.
Support 24x7 mission-critical production operations and enterprise operational processes, including ServiceNow incident, change, CMDB, asset-management, and ITIL workflows.
Research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle.
Apply Six Sigma methodologies in software applications to improve reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
Manage development of new or existing programs and applications into technical infrastructure and integrate them with business processes.
Provide technical or functional guidance and collaborate with work teams, onshore/offshore vendors, and business-unit personnel.
Collaborate with network administrators, systems analysts, database administrators, external vendor support, and software engineers to resolve software and system issues.
Guide system-administration tasks, including system backup/recovery and disaster recovery.
Design, run, and monitor software performance tests to correct errors, identify improvements, and debug applications.
Research emerging application-development products, languages, and standards in support of procurement, development, and maintenance.
Develop and implement standard build processes, repeatable utilities, and tools.
Meet attendance and storm-duty requirements, work extended hours when needed, and perform other job-related duties as assigned.