Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Alliant Energy3 months ago
Madison, WI, USASenior
Base Salary
$103k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable enterprise cloud platform capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation frameworks, engineering standards, reusable platform capabilities, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Establish cloud platform architectures, engineering guardrails, governance standards, and technical practices supporting security, compliance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Engineer and support shared platform services including connectivity, identity, observability, and foundational infrastructure capabilities.
- Develop self-service platform capabilities and standardized deployment patterns to improve delivery speed and consistency.
- Engineer container platform and orchestration capabilities supporting modern application deployment and platform resiliency.
- Lead platform automation, AI-enabled engineering tools, reliability improvements, observability, performance optimization, and resource-management practices.
- Provide technical leadership, consultation, subject matter expertise, and mentorship for cloud adoption, modernization, and enterprise technology initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 3 years of experience developing or supporting cloud-based infrastructure and services using public cloud platforms.
- At least 2 years of experience implementing infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms in production environments.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives and delivering solutions for business and technology needs.
- Strong understanding of cloud platform engineering, architectures, hybrid infrastructure, cloud security, governance, risk management, compliance, automation, orchestration, observability, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
- Preferred experience with regulated, critical-infrastructure, or utility environments; container orchestration, cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, and enterprise observability or reliability engineering practices.
- Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, or cloud architecture certifications are preferred.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related STEM field is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with a base pay range of $103,000-$141,000 and eligibility for an annual incentive program.
- Comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, volunteer opportunities, and safety and wellness programs.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support; selected candidates must complete a background check and, where applicable, a drug screen.
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About Alliant Energy
Alliant Energy is a regulated utility that generates, transmits and distributes electricity and supplies natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Iowa and Wisconsin. The public company (NASDAQ: LNT), founded in 1917 and headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, serves about 1 million electric and 425,000 natural gas customers and invests in wind and other renewables. Its revenues are primarily derived from state-regulated rates for utility service.