<p>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. MidAmerican Energy Company has an exciting career opportunity available. Take the next step in your career and apply now!</p> <p>Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), computer science, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)</p> <ul> <li>Six or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering </li><li>Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java </li><li>Experience working with Linux systems and distributed applications </li></ul> <p>Key Responsibilities</p> <p>Platform Engineering</p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate internal platform services that support application development and deployment </li><li>Develop standardized platform capabilities supporting modern application architectures </li><li>Enable self-service deployment and infrastructure consumption for development teams </li><li>Improve developer productivity by simplifying how applications are built, tested, deployed, and operated </li></ul> <p>Platform Automation & Tooling</p> <ul> <li>Develop platform components and automation using modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java) </li><li>Build tooling and APIs that abstract infrastructure complexity from application teams </li><li>Maintain platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices </li><li>Contribute reusable platform components and service templates </li></ul> <p>CI/CD & Developer Workflows</p> <ul> <li>Build and operate CI/CD platforms and automated deployment pipelines </li><li>Maintain integrations between source control systems, build systems, and deployment platforms </li><li>Standardize developer workflows across teams </li><li>Improve software delivery speed through automation and platform capabilities </li></ul> <p>Messaging & Event Streaming Platforms</p> <ul> <li>Build and operate messaging and event streaming platforms used by application teams </li><li>Support event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar systems </li><li>Ensure messaging platforms are reliable, scalable, and observable </li><li>Provide standards and tooling that enable teams to publish and consume events consistently </li></ul> <p>Observability & Reliability</p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain observability systems enabling monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing </li><li>Implement telemetry pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry </li><li>Participate in reliability engineering practices including incident response and operational improvement </li></ul> <p>Security & Platform Governance</p> <ul> <li>Implement platform security best practices including identity management and secrets management </li><li>Ensure platform services support organizational security and compliance requirements </li></ul>