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Requisition ID: 98001 Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy. Position Specific Description We are seeking a Senior IT Programmer Analyst: Cloud DevOps to join our Enterprise Data Office. In this senior role, you will lead the engineering, automation, and governance of cloud data infrastructure across AWS and GCP — enabling scalable, secure, and well-governed data services that power analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise data products at NextEra scale. Key Responsibilities • Implement and operate cloud data services across AWS and GCP, including managed data platforms, storage layers, compute, and networking with a data-first lens • Practice Databricks platform engineering — workspace provisioning, Unity Catalog governance, cluster lifecycle management, workflow orchestration, and feature operationalization (including AI/BI capabilities) • Engineer and maintain AWS data services (Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR, MSK, DMS, Lake Formation) and GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage) with emphasis on reliability, security, resiliency and cost efficiency • Implement infrastructure automation for data platform provisioning using GitHubActions, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines — reducing manual toil and enabling self-service for business units • Implement and enforce data access governance across platforms, including IAM policies, Unity Catalog permissions, Lake Formation controls, and project-based authorization models • Champion FinOps practices — tagging compliance, chargeback, cost anomaly detection, and budget governance across cloud data spend • Serve as Tier 3 escalation for data platform incidents, ensuring SLA adherence and operational continuity Preferred Qualifications • 4+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines, with meaningful experience supporting enterprise data platforms • Solid hands-on expertise with AWS and/or GCP, with experience building and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure and data services • Databricks platform engineering experience, including workspace administration, Unity Catalog, compute, security, governance, and platform automation • Familiarity with cloud data technologies such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, MSK, DMS, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or Cloud Composer • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, including Terraform and GitHub Actions or equivalent technologies • Working knowledge of cloud networking and security, including IAM, VPC networking, private connectivity, DNS, encryption, secrets management, and service identities • Experience implementing data governance and access-control frameworks across enterprise or multi-cloud environments • Proficiency in Python, Shell, or similar languages for platform engineering and automation • Experience with platform observability, incident management, resiliency, and production operational practices • Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms in the context of automated provisioning and operational workflows • Ability to work with technical workstreams, contribute to architecture decisions, and communicate effectively with both technical teams and stakeholders • A positive attitude, strong collaborative spirit, and agentic/automation-first mindset. Job Overview This position assesses, designs, develops, integrates and troubleshoots technology to support business processes. Employees provide technical or functional guidance to project or work teams, as needed within specific or multiple disciplines. This position is accountable for ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems, as well as ensuring that excellent technical support services are provided. Job Duties & Responsibilities • Analyzes, designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, maintains, integrates, customizes and enhances existing or new systems • Applies appropriate Agile or development methodologies, system development lifecycles, tools, and technology • Automates the handoff of code releases from development to operations (DevOps) • Participates in the change management and service ticket management processes, including receiving, resolution monitoring and ensuring customer satisfaction • Leads projects when needed and builds strong working understanding of the solution being delivered • Ensures user satisfaction by providing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and timely resolution of more complex problems • 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 regulatory 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 Required Qualifications • High School Grad / GED • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience • Experience: 4+ years Preferred Qualifications • Bachelor's - Information Systems NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more. Employee Group: Exempt Employee Type: Full Time Job Category: Information Technology Organization: Florida Power & Light Company Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies . Please see our policy for more information.

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Requisition ID: 98001
Position Specific Description
Implement and operate cloud data services across AWS and GCP, including managed data platforms, storage layers, compute, and networking with a data-first lens
Practice Databricks platform engineering — workspace provisioning, Unity Catalog governance, cluster lifecycle management, workflow orchestration, and feature operationalization (including AI/BI capabilities)
Engineer and maintain AWS data services (Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR, MSK, DMS, Lake Formation) and GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage) with emphasis on reliability, security, resiliency and cost efficiency
Implement infrastructure automation for data platform provisioning using GitHubActions, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines — reducing manual toil and enabling self-service for business units
Implement and enforce data access governance across platforms, including IAM policies, Unity Catalog permissions, Lake Formation controls, and project-based authorization models
Champion FinOps practices — tagging compliance, chargeback, cost anomaly detection, and budget governance across cloud data spend
Serve as Tier 3 escalation for data platform incidents, ensuring SLA adherence and operational continuity
4+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines, with meaningful experience supporting enterprise data platforms
Acts as liaison with regulatory agencies, vendors, and contractors on matters relating to computer systems as required
High School Grad / GED

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Solid hands-on expertise with AWS and/or GCP, with experience building and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure and data services
Databricks platform engineering experience, including workspace administration, Unity Catalog, compute, security, governance, and platform automation
Familiarity with cloud data technologies such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, MSK, DMS, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or Cloud Composer
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, including Terraform and GitHub Actions or equivalent technologies
Working knowledge of cloud networking and security, including IAM, VPC networking, private connectivity, DNS, encryption, secrets management, and service identities
Experience implementing data governance and access-control frameworks across enterprise or multi-cloud environments
Proficiency in Python, Shell, or similar languages for platform engineering and automation
Experience with platform observability, incident management, resiliency, and production operational practices
Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms in the context of automated provisioning and operational workflows
Ability to work with technical workstreams, contribute to architecture decisions, and communicate effectively with both technical teams and stakeholders
A positive attitude, strong collaborative spirit, and agentic/automation-first mindset.
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