About the role

What will you do at BHE (Berkshire Hathaway Energy)?

This is a multi-level posting. Candidates may be considered for any of the posted levels, depending on their level of experience and depth of expertise. Our team is building a modern hybrid cloud platform from the ground up to support the next generation of applications across the organization.

The platform provides foundational infrastructure, container runtime environments, developer tooling, messaging systems, and observability capabilities required to run reliable and scalable applications. This is a greenfield engineering opportunity. The team is defining how infrastructure is built and operated using code, APIs, and declarative systems, with reliability, observability, and repeatability built in from the start.

Our approach emphasizes: • Linux-first systems design • Kubernetes as a core abstraction layer • Infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows • Open observability standards (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) • Distributed, software-defined storage and networking Engineers on this team help build and operate the foundational platforms that support modern workloads and internal technology services.

MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation. MidAmerican Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.

Which skills does this role require?

LinuxKubernetesInfrastructure-as-codeTerraformPrometheusOpenTelemetryGrafanaDistributed systemsCloud platformsNetworkingStorage systemsAutomationSecurity practicesIdentity managementSecrets managementSoftware EngineerInfrastructureHybrid cloudCephSecurityPlatform engineeringSite reliability engineeringGreenfield engineering

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