Senior Infra Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps

Bhe Gt&S; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MidAmerican Energy Company is building a modern, software-defined infrastructure platform to support enterprise applications across on‑prem and cloud environments. The team emphasizes reliability, observability, and automation from day one.

The Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate foundational infrastructure—compute, storage, networking, and container infrastructure—driving scalable, automated operations for hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience; typically four years of related progressive work experience.
• Six or more years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability roles.
• Strong experience with Linux systems and distributed infrastructure environments.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Python, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure platforms including compute, storage, networking, and container infrastructure.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure across on‑premises data centers and cloud environments.
• Operate and support Kubernetes clusters and their underlying infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of infrastructure systems.
• Support hybrid infrastructure environments and platform services that run on top of them.
• Implement infrastructure provisioning and configuration through IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Standardize infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management.
• Build tooling that improves operational efficiency and infrastructure reliability.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams supporting CI/CD, messaging, observability, and developer platforms.
• Implement monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to reliability improvements and operational maturity.
• Implement infrastructure security best practices and manage identity and secrets.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Java

GitOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Ceph

Job description

MidAmerican Energy Company is building a modern, software-defined infrastructure platform to support enterprise applications across on‑prem and cloud environments. The team emphasizes reliability, observability, and automation from day one.

The Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate foundational infrastructure—compute, storage, networking, and container infrastructure—driving scalable, automated operations for hybrid environments.