Principal Infra Engineer - Kubernetes & IaC Platform

MidAmerican Energy Company; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MidAmerican Energy Company in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer-Infrastructure to design, build, and operate the foundational infrastructure powering our platform. You will shape compute, storage, networking, and container runtimes across on‑premises and cloud environments.

You will implement modern infrastructure through code, automation, and GitOps, ensuring high availability, observability, and security while collaborating with platform teams to support enterprise

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE roles.
• Strong Linux systems expertise and distributed infrastructure experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure platforms across data centers and cloud environments.
• Operate and support Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of systems.
• Develop infrastructure automation using modern programming languages.
• Collaborate with platform teams supporting CI/CD, observability, and security.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Java

Linux

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS/CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

MidAmerican Energy Company in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer-Infrastructure to design, build, and operate the foundational infrastructure powering our platform. You will shape compute, storage, networking, and container runtimes across on‑premises and cloud environments.

You will implement modern infrastructure through code, automation, and GitOps, ensuring high availability, observability, and security while collaborating with platform teams to support enterprise