ADMS IT Environment & Release Lead, Expert

Requisition ID # 168482 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E IT is a unified organization composed of various departments which collaborate effectively to plan, deliver, and operate high quality technology solutions. Grid and Control Center technology department is in the process of embarking major transformation journey implementing ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System), DERMS (Distributed Energy resource management system) and supports & maintains legacy applications within Electric distribution & transmission and Gas area to meet identified business goals and priorities.

Position Summary

The Environment and Release Lead is responsible for overseeing environment management and software release processes for the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) within an electric utility. This role ensures seamless deployments, system stability, and regulatory compliance while coordinating across IT, OT, ADMS vendors, and control center operations. The ideal candidate will have experience managing ADMS environments (including SCADA, OMS, and DERMS integrations), implementing structured release management practices, and working within regulatory frameworks like NERC CIP to maintain system reliability and security.

PG&E is providing the salary range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting. This salary range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

Pay range: $126,000.00 - $179,300.00

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory. 

Job Responsibilities

• ADMS Environment Management:
  • Oversee and maintain ADMS environments, including development, test, staging, training, and production.
  • Define and implement provisioning, configuration, and decommissioning strategies for ADMS environments in collaboration with ADMS Core applications.
  • Ensure system consistency across SCADA, OMS, GIS, and AMI integrations.
  • Monitor environment performance, availability, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with NERC CIP and utility industry best practices.
  • Collaborate with vendors (e.g., Schneider Electric), ensuring adherence to environment and security policies.
  • Work with IT on platform patch management, maintaining a cadence throughout the year. Ensure environments are not lagging behind in software versions
• Release & Deployment Management:
  • Develop and execute structured release strategies for ADMS software upgrades, patches, and configurations.
  • Plan and coordinate ADMS software releases, ensuring minimizing unplanned downtime for control center operations.
  • Manage and enforce change control and governance aligned with utility industry compliance (NERC CIP, ITIL, FERC, ISO standards).
  • Maintain a release calendar, aligning deployments with operational schedules and vendor update cycles.
  • Implement and improve data release cycles utilizing DevOps tools (inc GitHub, Jenkins, AWS tools, etc.), and where feasible, balance patch updates with reliability in control center environments.
  • Work directly with Cloud Center of Excellence on ADMS applications in the cloud (e.g. OMT and Middleware APIs)
  • Establish rollback and disaster recovery plans to minimize operational risk during releases.
• Collaboration & Compliance:
  • Work closely with developers, end users, SCADA engineers, ADMS administrators, and IT/OT teams to ensure seamless software and system upgrades.
  • Communicate release plans, system updates, and potential impacts to control room staff and stakeholders.
  • Maintain detailed documentation of ADMS environment configurations, release notes, rollback procedures, and compliance records.
  • Ensure vendor-managed ADMS software updates are properly tested and validated before deployment.
• Monitoring & Continuous Improvement:
• • Monitor and keep uptime of ADMS environments (DEV->TEST->QAS and Prod)
  • Track ADMS release performance, system stability, and key operational metrics, identifying areas for improvement.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives for release management and environment stability.
  • Evaluate and implement automation tools for release, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Conduct post-release reviews and incident root cause analysis to improve future deployments.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 5 years experience in software or systems engineering, or related

Desired:

• 5+ years in environment management, release management, or DevOps within the electric utility industry.
• Strong knowledge of ADMS platforms (e.g., GE, Siemens, Schneider, OSI, Hitachi) and real-time operational environments.
• Experience managing SCADA, OMS, DERMS, GIS, or AMI integrations.

• Experience working with utility control center teams, balancing system upgrades with grid reliability needs

• Familiarity with IT/OT security frameworks (NERC CIP, ISO 27001, FERC regulations).
• Strong knowledge of ITIL processes, version control (Git, SVN), and change management tools.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) for utility environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Datadog) applied to real-time grid operations.
• Certification in ITIL, AWS, Azure DevOps, or NERC CIP compliance.
• Experience coordinating with ISO/RTOs, transmission operators, and regulatory bodies on system changes.

• Experience in software troubleshooting
• Experience in application support
• Experience in systems implementation, job-related
• Experience with core software applications
• Experience in systems security principles
• Experience in systems planning, job-related
• Experience in software management best practices
• MCSE-Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certification
• ISO20000-International Standards Organization certification
• ITIL-Information Technology Infrastructure Library Version 3 certification
• CMMI-Capability Maturity Model Integration certification