NextEra Energy, Inc.

IT Manager

NextEra Energy, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Juno Beach • Florida • United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudCyber SecurityTerraform

About the role

  • Lead functional and technical aspects of technology delivery across a portfolio of applications, DevOps services, and cloud platforms supporting ETRM and enterprise operations.
  • Own and drive end-to-end onboarding and enablement for technical resources, including access coordination, tooling readiness, and standards alignment.
  • Establish and maintain strong partnerships with enterprise IT teams and business stakeholders, communicating dependencies, risks, and delivery status.
  • Own AWS account / environment governance across multiple ETRM cloud environments, including access controls (IAM), guardrails, and operational standards.
  • Partner with Cloud and Cyber teams to ensure alignment with enterprise cloud security controls (e.g., logging, encryption, monitoring, vulnerability management).
  • Drive production and DR readiness for cloud-hosted workloads, including runbooks, backups, recovery testing, and operational health metrics.
  • Ensure consistent cloud cost governance in partnership with Finance/PMO (tagging strategy, spend visibility, forecasting, and anomaly review).
  • Establish standards for cloud change management and engineering practices (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, approvals, and compliance evidence).
  • Provide governance for application engineering and security standards, including code approval authority and compliance alignment.
  • Own and manage cloud platform operations (multiple environments), including access governance, production readiness, DR posture, and audit readiness.
  • Drive identity, access, and compliance activities, including ongoing access approvals, SoX certifications, and periodic SharePoint/system certifications.
  • Manage vendor performance and contract execution (SOW governance), ensuring delivery outcomes, escalation paths, and resource coordination.
  • Own program financials including capital budget tracking, forecasting, and capitalization compliance in partnership with Finance and PMO.
  • Lead, coach, and develop team members through 1:1s, performance management, and talent development, in alignment with HR processes.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience leading technology teams and/or cross-functional delivery in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong working knowledge of DevOps delivery/operations, cloud environment governance, and application lifecycle practices.
  • Experience partnering with Cybersecurity, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Compliance/Audit, Finance/PMO, and business leadership to deliver outcomes.
  • Strong working knowledge of cloud platform governance and operations, specifically in AWS.
  • Hands-on understanding of core AWS capabilities, including: IAM (roles, policies, access reviews), Networking concepts (VPCs, routing, security groups, private connectivity concepts), Logging/monitoring (CloudWatch and enterprise monitoring patterns), Security fundamentals (encryption, key management concepts, least privilege, audit logging).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and delivery automation concepts (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation patterns, CI/CD governance), even if not the primary implementer.
  • Proven ability to manage vendors and SOW-based delivery, including performance management and escalations.
  • Working knowledge of identity and access governance, audit readiness, and compliance activities (e.g., SoX certifications).
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills across multiple concurrent priorities.
  • Ability to translate strategy into execution—balancing scope, timeline, risk, quality, and operational stability.
Benefits
  • NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AWSDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDIAMTerraformCloudFormationNetworking conceptsLogging/monitoringSecurity fundamentals
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementexecutionteam leadershipperformance managementtalent developmentcross-functional deliveryrisk managementstrategic executionvendor management
Certifications
SoX certifications