About the role

What will you do at BHE?

Our team is building is building a modern hybrid cloud platform from the ground up to support the next generation of applications across our organization. The platform provides the 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 designing and implementing the core platform architecture that will operate across our data centers and cloud environments. Engineers on this team help define how infrastructure is provisioned, how Kubernetes platforms are operated, and how automation enables consistent and scalable operations. Our approach emphasizes software-driven infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, Git-based workflows, and modern observability practices.

Engineers on the platform team build production-grade systems that reduce operational complexity and enable teams to operate systems through automated and self-service capabilities. Work Location: Onsite at one of the listed locations; remote candidates may be considered. 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?

Automation engineeringInfrastructure engineeringPlatform engineeringSoftware engineeringGoPythonJavaLinuxTerraformCI/CDGitKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryGitOpsAutomationInfrastructurePlatform EngineeringSoftware EngineeringHybrid CloudContainer RuntimeObservabilityInfrastructure-as-codeAPISystem IntegrationUtilityEnergy

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