Senior Cloud Engineer, Digital

Company: NATIONAL GRID CO USA (NE POWER)
Location: Boylston
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

COVID StatementIn accordance with guidelines regarding companies classified as Federal contractors and consistent with our core commitment of safety, National Grid has made the decision to require all new hires to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated as a condition of hire. "Full vaccination" is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a religious belief or a disability can request a reasonable accommodation.About usNational Grid is one of the world's largest publicly listed utilities focused on transmission and distribution of electricity and gas. We deliver electricity and gas safely, reliably, and efficiently to the customer and communities we serve - all while working toward a clean energy future. As part of our commitment to helping our society decarbonize, National Grid must develop the digital and technology capabilities required to operate a zero-carbon electricity system. This will require us to complete our digital transformation so that we can build products, platforms, and services that enable the innovation needed to reshape the energy system.As part of this transformation, National Grid has built a new team, Digital, to infuse our organization with digital builders across product management, design, and engineering. We offer flexible remote working arrangements in the Northeast region of the US, and in London in the UK. We have physical offices in Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY in the US, and Birmingham in the UK. We are hiring digital builders at all levels to support our mission to enable a fair and affordable transition to a clean energy economy.Key Accountabilities

• Drive sound architecture, infrastructure, build patterns, and create measurable, reusable efficiencies for our platforms and toolchains
• Work closely with Product teams
• Balance multiple competing priorities across projects and programs, dependencies, costs and timelines while clearing blockers to delivery roadmap
• Build upon existing operational framework in an Agile/DevOps organization including SLO/SLA/KPI, process workflows and tools
• Strong financial management with regard to build vs. buy analysis, TCO, ROIQualifications
  • 3+ years in a highly technical environment
  • Deep experience in current technologies such as serverless, Docker/Kubernetes, functional programming languages, pub/sub messaging, RESTful APIs and gRPC
  • Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud architecture including networking, databases, security, performance and reliability at scale
  • Strong understanding of error & exception handling, APM, tracing, metrics, and logging
  • Experience with data engineering and micro-serviced, event driven architectures
  • Experience with SRE, Technical Operations and ITIL with emphasis on self-service, defect management and automationMore InformationThis position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Internal candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.

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