Senior Software Engineer

Requisition ID:  74008 

Florida Power & Light Company is America’s largest electric company, providing clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to more than 12 million people in Florida. We operate one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and our reliability is among the best in the nation. Our goal is to achieve Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 by expanding our solar capacity, increasing battery storage and bringing new renewable energy opportunities to Florida, while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in becoming a game-changer in the energy industry?  Join our world-class team today! 

Position Specific Description

Our team provides cloud and on-premise compute platform services to internal IT customers. We are continually enhancing and expanding those services to meet our organization’s needs. We treat these services as products with a focus on providing value to our internal IT customers. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Programmer Analyst to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing complex business requirements, designing and developing software solutions, and providing technical leadership to junior team members. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful implementation of projects and drive the growth and improvement of our infrastructure.

Responsibilities
•    Analyzes, designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, maintains, integrates, customizes and enhances existing or new IT Infrastructure self-service and automation systems
•    Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g. application and IT teams stakeholders, product owners, and project managers) to understand functional and non-functional requirements
•    Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems
•    Participate in scope of work estimation, forecasting and solutions business value
•    Implement unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate. 
•    Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery
•    Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and knowledge base articles.
•    Applies appropriate Agile or development methodologies, system development lifecycles, tools, and technology
•    Automates the handoff of code releases from development to operations (DevOps and Cloud Support)
•    Participates in the change management and  service ticket management processes - escalations from the Operations teams, including receiving, resolution monitoring, and ensuring customer satisfaction
•    Builds strong working understanding of the solution being delivered
•    Designs, develops, and  tests experimental application work to test new ideas with bounded cost and time frames
•    Ensures that applications processes are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, security, compliance, environmental, and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation
•    Acts as liaison with agencies, vendors, and contractors on matters relating to computer systems as required
•    Defines metrics and monitors Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for systems being developed
•    Performs other job-related duties as assigned
•    Stay updated with the latest technologies, tools, and industry trends, and recommend their adoption where appropriate
•    Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior programmers, guiding them in software development methodologies, code review, and problem-solving.

Essential experience
•    Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
•    5+ years of experience as a Programmer Analyst or similar role.

Skills 
•    Excellent analytical and technical skills 
•    Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation 
•    Strong leadership skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, motivating others, and relationship building
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•    Good presentation skills, develop and present material that is concise and effective
•    Public cloud and on-premise systems infrastructure expertise
•    Intermediate networking knowledge of routing, switching, security, load balancing on public and private networks
•    Advanced knowledge of public and private domain name services operation and architecture
•    Understanding best practices for large IT organizations
•    Strong knowledge and experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
•    Proficiency in IaC tools and frameworks such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, YAML, and JSON
•    Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as pipelines (CI/CD), version control systems (Github),
•    Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell Script, and Powershell
•    Understanding of cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM).
•    Experience with cloud monitoring and troubleshooting tools like AWS CloudWatch.
•    Ability to set up alerts, analyze logs, and identify performance bottlenecks or system issues.
•    Experience with AWS Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB.
•    Skilled in setting up and maintaining Linux/Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2.
•    Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes