Senior Cloud Engineer

About the role

At Alliant Energy, we are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. We are dedicated to serving our customers and building stronger communities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates departmental projects and the design, evaluation, recommendation, building, testing and maintenance of medium to large computing services
• Writes specification documents for these systems
• Responds to support tickets and resolves technical issues escalated through Help Desk
• Maintains disaster recovery plans and coordinates the planning and execution of disaster recovery drills
• Participates in the usage of Agile processes to gather requirements, develop solutions, and deliver products
• Assists other teams and helps manage relationships with outside vendors

Requirements

• Demonstrated advanced understanding of software application packaging and distribution tools, methods and techniques
• Demonstrated working knowledge of network operating systems, LAN characteristics, network topologies, components, protocols and services such as TCP/IP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and routers
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to apply logical reasoning to situations and derive workable solutions for moderate to highly complex problems
• Demonstrated ability to lead a project team to the successful conclusion of moderate to complex technology initiatives
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Emphasis in information technology or related area
• Preferred: 6 years of experience in PC support in a networked environment, including system hardware and software support
• Advanced administrative experience with Microsoft Windows operating systems and software, standard application packages, imaging software, profile migration techniques, client computing hardware, peripherals, and general PC troubleshooting and problem resolution

Skills

• Cloud Architectures
• Configuration Management
• Data Storage
• Database Storage
• DevOps
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Administration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Systems Performance Monitoring
• Systems Designs
• Incident Management

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs
• Annual incentive program eligibility

Pay

The final salary offered will generally fall within the range of $85,000 - $116,000 and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.