Sr Cloud Automation Engineer

Job Description

We are hiring for a Sr Senior Cloud Automation Engineer to advance our automation initiatives. This position focuses on architecting, engineering, and maintaining automation frameworks across hybrid cloud platforms. This role focuses heavily on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipeline engineering, configuration management, security automation, and scalable orchestration patterns that enable fully automated infrastructure delivery.

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.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or related technical field or equivalent work experience. (Typically, 4 years of additional related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)

Key Skills and Experience

• Ten years of related experience.
• Five years of solid experience as an automation engineer integrating tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Urban code deploy (or other deployment tools).
• Three years of experience designing, creating CI/CD pipelines for various technologies using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Three years of experience in containerization platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Tanzu.
• Azure DevOps certification (AZ-400) a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to engineer and operationalize continuous improvement across automation platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs.
• Experienced in leading efforts to implement continuous improvements to all areas of pipeline automation and infrastructure services in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of overall automation capabilities.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects concurrently.

Automation and Orchestration

• Design and implement automated provisioning workflows using IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, or similar.
• Develop reusable automation modules, policies, and templates for hybrid cloud infrastructure spanning Azure, VMware, Hyper-Converged platforms, and on-premises systems.
• Engineer integration patterns between automation tooling and infrastructure platforms (compute, network, storage, security services).

CI/CD & DevOps Pipeline Architecture

• Architect and manage complex Azure DevOps pipelines including YAML-based multi-stage deployments, automated testing suites, artifact management, environment promotion, and approval workflows.
• Integrate CI/CD workflows with tools such as GitHub, FluxCD, Jenkins, Artifactory, and deployment automation platforms.
• Implement secure pipeline practices: secrets management, identity integration, supply chain validation, and artifact integrity controls.

Configuration Management & Orchestration

• Build and maintain automation logic using Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories, Orchestrator/AWX Tower integrations).
• Develop automated remediation workflows, state-enforcement processes, and configuration drift management.
• Enable automated OS builds, patching, baseline hardening, compliance scanning, and configuration governance.

Cloud Platform Engineering

• Engineer hybrid cloud automation patterns for Azure, OCI, VMware, and on-prem HCI platforms.
• Build service catalog integrations and self-service workflows for infrastructure delivery and lifecycle management.
• Optimize infrastructure performance, resiliency, and cost through automation and orchestration pipelines.

Security Engineering & Compliance Automation

• Implement automated controls that ensure platform hardening, identity enforcement, network policy compliance, and logging/telemetry coverage.
• Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, and validation of automation workflows handling privileged operations.
• Ensure all automated workflows comply with organizational security standards and industry best practices.

Technical Research & Platform Evolution

• Evaluate emerging technologies in cloud automation, IaC, CI/CD tooling, and orchestration frameworks.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering standards, reusable patterns, and automation best practices.
• Maintain deep knowledge of vendor roadmaps and participate in technical escalations with cloud/service providers.

Skills

• ARM (Advanced RISC Machine)
• Analysis Skills
• Ansible
• Automation
• Automation Engineering
• Best Practices
• Cloud Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Communication Skills
• Computer Networks
• Computer Science
• Configuration Management
• Continuous Deployment/Delivery
• Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Integration
• DevOps
• Docker
• Emerging Technology
• Establish Priorities
• GitHub
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Hybrid Cloud
• Industry Standards
• Information Technology & Information Systems
• Jenkins
• Leadership
• Machine Tool
• Microsoft Windows Azure
• Model Validation
• Multiplatform/Cross-Platform
• Multitasking
• Natural Gas
• Operating Systems
• Operational Improvement
• Performance Tuning/Optimization
• Power Generation
• Presentation/Verbal Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Security Analysis
• Security Compliance
• Software Engineering
• Software Patches
• Supply Chain
• System Integration (SI)
• Systems Engineering
• Technical Research
• Telemetry
• Test Automation
• Test Suite
• Threat Modeling
• VMWare
• Writing Skills

About the Company

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co