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Amy's Kitchen

California Office of Data and Innovation

Hybrid

Onsite

SUMMARY 
The Senior Platform Engineer designs, builds, modernizes, and operates the enterprise compute, virtualization, storage, and backup platform across plants, data center, offices, cloud environments, and remote users. This role owns the compute and resilience platform end to end, including architecture, automation, capacity management, disaster recovery, and operational performance. 
The position emphasizes Infrastructure as Code, automation first practices, AI-enabled operations, disaster recovery readiness and reduction of technical debt to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure compute services aligned to enterprise strategy. 
The full salary range for this position is $111,200 – $166,800. However, our current budget for a new hire is $111,200 – $150,000, depending on the candidate's specific experience and skills.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES may include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
PLATFORM OWNERSHIP
<ul>
<li>Own the enterprise compute, virtualization, storage, and backup platforms across plants, warehouses, offices, cloud, and remote environments</li>
<li>Design for high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and rapid recovery</li>
<li>Ensure platform reliability supports manufacturing uptime, enterprise operations, and business continuity</li>
<li>Serve as technical authority for compute architecture, virtualization standards, storage design, and resilience strategy</li>
<li>Drive modernization, standardization, and lifecycle management of servers, hypervisors, storage arrays, and backup platforms</li>
<li>Reduce technical debt and eliminate configuration drift</li>
<li>Act as a technical mentor and escalation point within the platform domain</li>
</ul>
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
<ul>
<li>Design and implement resilient, secure, and scalable compute, virtualization, and storage architectures</li>
<li>Define and maintain standards, reference designs, and best practices for server builds, cluster design, hypervisor configuration, and storage layout</li>
<li>Lead platform upgrades, hypervisor migrations, storage refreshes, and modernization initiatives</li>
<li>Ensure integration with adjacent platforms such as network, security, cloud, identity, data, and applications</li>
<li>Support hybrid environments spanning on-premises infrastructure, cloud compute platforms (Azure AWS), and SaaS workloads</li>
<li>Design and maintain high-availability clusters and disaster recovery configurations  </li>
</ul>
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
<ul>
<li>Define compute and infrastructure configurations using code, templates, or structured configuration management tools</li>
<li>Establish version-controlled configurations as the system of record or server builds, hypervisor configurations, and storage policies  </li>
<li>Enable repeatable, low-risk changes through standardized deployment models</li>
<li>Reduce manual changes and operational inconsistencies</li>
<li>Contribute to CI/CD practices for infrastructure or platform changes</li>
<li>Maintain version-controlled repositories as the authoritative source of platform configuration</li>
</ul>
AUTOMATION & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
<ul>
<li>Automate server provisioning, patching, lifecycle management, validation, recovery, and compliance validation</li>
<li>Reduce manual operational effort through scripting and workflow automation</li>
<li>Partner with MSPs to ensure consistent execution of backup, recovery, and infrastructure runbooks</li>
<li>Improve monitoring signal quality across compute, storage, and virtualization layers</li>
<li>Design self-healing or auto-remediation capabilities where appropriate</li>
<li>Continuously optimize resource utilization, performance, and capacity planning  </li>
</ul>
RESILIENCY & SECURITY FOUNDATIONS
<ul>
<li>Ensure compute platform resilience, redundancy, backup, and disaster recovery alignment</li>
<li>
Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery design and testing processes
</li>
<li>
Maintain documented recovery procedures and conduct periodic DR exercises
</li>
<li>Partner with Security teams to maintain compliance, segmentation, access controls, and monitoring standards</li>
<li>Support enterprise risk management initiatives related to infrastructure stability, ransomware protection, and business continuity</li>
</ul>
AI-ENABLED OPERATIONS
<ul>
<li>Leverage AI-driven monitoring and analytics to detect anomalies and performance risks</li>
<li>Support predictive insights related to compute utilization, storage growth and failure trends</li>
<li>Contribute to AI-assisted incident investigation and root cause analysis where tooling supports it</li>
<li>Identify opportunities to reduce alert fatigue and improve operational insight using intelligent tooling</li>
</ul>
COLLABORATION & ENABLEMENT
<ul>
<li>Partner closely with the business and other IT teams</li>
<li>Provide clear architecture diagrams, standards documentation, and operational runbooks</li>
<li>Participate in Tier-2 or Tier-3 escalation and on-call rotations within the platform domain</li>
<li>Act as secondary or tertiary responder for critical enterprise outages</li>
<li>Support cross-functional initiatives tied to modernization and transformation</li>
</ul>
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 
This position has no supervisory responsibilities, but acts in a lead capacity to other department staff.
QUALIFICATIONS 
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE 
<ul>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience</li>
<li>8+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including at least 5 years in a senior-level role within a defined technology domain</li>
</ul>
SKILLS
<ul>
<li>Senior-level hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise technology platforms in multi-site and hybrid environments</li>
<li>Strong understanding of high availability, resiliency, and enterprise architecture principles</li>
<li>Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, or templated infrastructure practices</li>
<li>Advanced automation and scripting experience, such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or similar</li>
<li>Experience with monitoring, logging, telemetry, and AIOps or AI-assisted monitoring platforms</li>
<li>Strong understanding of security principles, access controls, and compliance considerations</li>
<li>Experience supporting hybrid environments integrating on-premise infrastructure, cloud platforms, and SaaS services</li>
<li>Ability to operate production systems with strict uptime and reliability requirements</li>
<li>Experience documenting architecture, standards, and operational procedures</li>
<li>Familiarity with AI-assisted monitoring or analytics platforms that improve operational effectiveness</li>
</ul>
Preferred Qualifications
<ul>
<li>Experience supporting manufacturing or operational technology environments</li>
<li>Experience working with MSPs providing NOC or SOC services</li>
<li>Familiarity with CI/CD practices for infrastructure</li>
<li>Experience leading modernization or transformation initiative</li>
</ul>
LANGUAGE SKILLS 
<ul>
<li>Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li>
<li>Strong written communication skills for architecture documentation, standards, and executive-level summaries.</li>
</ul>
REASONING ABILITY 
Ability to evaluate complex technical environments, synthesize system data, assess risk, and make sound architectural and operational decisions in dynamic or ambiguous situations. Demonstrates strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and the ability to balance business impact with technical considerations.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS 
No certifications are required. Relevant industry certifications aligned to the platform domain such as cloud, networking, security, or automation credentials are preferred and may strengthen candidacy.
CONFIDENTIALITY
In the course of performing this role, the Senior IT Platform Engineer may have access to confidential company, employee, operational, and technical information. The employee is expected to safeguard all such information, exercise sound judgment in its handling, and maintain strict confidentiality at all times.
TRAVEL
Travel up to 10% may be required to support corporate headquarters, plants, warehouses, or other business locations.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS 
The physical demands described here represent those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
This position is primarily office-based and requires prolonged periods of sitting, speaking, and hearing. Occasional standing, walking, reaching, bending, or lifting of equipment up to 50 pounds may be required when supporting infrastructure or on-site technology environments. Close vision and color vision may be necessary for working with hardware and cabling.
WORK ENVIRONMENT 
The work environment is primarily an office or corporate setting, with occasional visits to plant, warehouse, or technical facilities. The role may involve exposure to operational or industrial environments when supporting manufacturing technology. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Senior IT Platform Engineer, Compute & Resilience

8+ years infra/platform engineering; senior-level in architecture, automation, and resilience; strong IaC, automation, and cloud experience.

<h1>Job Description &amp; Duties</h1>
The Role: ODI is looking for a builder who is ready to put AI to work for California. As our Chief GenAI Engineer, you will lead the technical design and delivery of AI solutions that solve real-world problems. You won’t just be advising; you will be engineering systems that turn foundation models into practical tools, helping state departments move from manual processes to efficient, AI-augmented workflows.
This is a hands-on role focused on shipping code that matters. You will use cloud platforms common in state government (like Azure, GCP, AWS, and Snowflake) and bring a "product mindset" to ensure projects evolve from prototypes into reliable daily tools. If you are passionate about writing clean code, solving complex data challenges, and mentoring others in responsible AI engineering, we want you to be the technical heartbeat of our team.
What You Will Do
<ul><li>Build smart applications: Design and deploy intelligent applications that use the right tool for the job—whether that is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, or other grounding techniques—to ensure results are accurate and context-aware.</li><li>Turn messy text into insights: Engineer pipelines that take unstructured documents and turn them into structured, useful data.</li><li>Automate with agents: Create autonomous workflows that can retrieve information and assist humans with complex analysis, all while keeping safety guardrails in place.</li><li>Champion safe AI: Act as the technical conscience of the team, ensuring every system we build is ethical, secure, unbiased, and privacy-first.</li><li>Scale and operationalize: Take "proof of concepts" and turn them into monitored production services using modern DevOps and MLOps practices.</li><li>Teach and mentor: Run workshops, mentor data professionals, and help upskill the state workforce on the latest AI engineering practices.</li></ul>
ODI staff reside throughout California. The employee’s workstation is located in Sacramento or Oakland, California. Travel to the Sacramento headquarters may be required as needed. This position provides telework opportunities in accordance with agency telework policies.
Salary information – CalHR salary rules allow appointment at the entrance rate (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, § 599.673) of a classification. For classes with alternate ranges, placement is based on education/experience. 
ODI encourages people with disabilities to apply for jobs with us. The Limited Examination and Appointment Program (LEAP) can help people with disabilities get jobs with the State of California. It is an alternative to the regular civil service exam for a job. You explain your knowledge, skills, and abilities through on-the-job testing. Using LEAP is optional. Learn more about LEAP and find available exams on <a data-faitracker-click-bind="true" href="https://www.calhr.ca.gov/state-hr-professionals/Pages/limited-examination-appointment-program.aspx">CalHR's LEAP page</a>.
You will find additional information about the job in the <a data-faitracker-click-bind="true" href="https://live-digital-ca-gov.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Chief-GenAI-Engineer-Duty-Statement.docx.pdf">Duty Statement</a>.
<h1>Desirable Qualifications</h1>
We encourage you to apply regardless of whether you think you meet 100% of the desirable qualifications.
<ul><li>Applied AI Experience: Deep experience building and deploying LLM-backed applications, using techniques like RAG, vector search, or agentic orchestration.</li><li>Cloud Fluency: Advanced proficiency in engineering within major cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or Snowflake) and deploying secure cloud infrastructure.</li><li>Strong Coding Chops: Expert-level Python skills, with a focus on writing production-quality, testable, and maintainable code.</li><li>MLOps Knowledge: Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for machine learning to automate testing and deployment.</li><li>Communication Skills: The ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and translate policy requirements into code.</li><li>A "Responsible AI" Mindset: A proven track record of implementing guardrails, bias detection, and privacy protection in AI systems.</li></ul>

Chief GenAI Engineer

Lead design and delivery of AI solutions; hands-on engineering with cloud platforms; mentor and ensure responsible AI.

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