Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Automation & Reliability

alliantenergy; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 103,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Alliant Energy is expanding its cloud engineering capabilities to build a modern, scalable technology foundation for the future. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer designs, engineers, implements, and evolves enterprise cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient technology services across cloud and hybrid computing environments.

This role establishes cloud engineering standards and provides technical leadership for cloud adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field preferred.
• 5+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering, SRE, or related discipline.
• 3+ years developing cloud infrastructure using public cloud platforms.
• 2+ years infrastructure automation / IaC practices.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms in production.

Responsibilities

• Designs and evolves enterprise cloud platform capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Develops and maintains infrastructure automation frameworks and reusable platform components.
• Establishes cloud platform architectures, guardrails, and standards for security, reliability, and governance.
• Engineers and supports shared platform services including connectivity, identity, observability, and foundational infrastructure.
• Develops self-service platform capabilities and standardized deployment patterns for faster delivery.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or STEM

Job description

Alliant Energy is expanding its cloud engineering capabilities to build a modern, scalable technology foundation for the future. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer designs, engineers, implements, and evolves enterprise cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient technology services across cloud and hybrid computing environments.

This role establishes cloud engineering standards and provides technical leadership for cloud adoption.