Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. Our employees take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We prioritize safety, offer volunteer opportunities, and provide competitive pay, comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, and paid time off.

About the role

As Alliant Energy advances its digital transformation and continues to invest in the technologies that power our business, we are expanding our cloud engineering capabilities to build a modern, scalable technology foundation for the future. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer designs, engineers, implements, and continuously evolves enterprise cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient technology services across cloud and hybrid computing environments. This role establishes cloud engineering standards, develops automated platform solutions, advances infrastructure modernization, and provides technical leadership that improves reliability, operational excellence, and the delivery of technology solutions across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Designs and evolves enterprise cloud platform capabilities that provide secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable infrastructure services across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Develops and maintains enterprise infrastructure automation frameworks, engineering standards, and reusable platform capabilities that enable consistent deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Establishes cloud platform architectures, engineering guardrails, and technical standards that advance security, compliance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Engineers and supports shared platform services, including connectivity, identity, observability, and foundational infrastructure capabilities that support enterprise technology solutions.
• Develops self-service platform capabilities and standardized deployment patterns that improve delivery speed, consistency, and the technology user experience.
• Engineers container platform and orchestration capabilities that support modern application deployment, platform resiliency, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Leads platform automation, AI-enabled engineering tools, and reliability improvements that reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enhance service availability.
• Implements observability, performance, and reliability engineering practices that proactively identify risks and improve platform health and operational outcomes.
• Drives cloud governance, resource management, and optimization practices that improve utilization, cost transparency, and sustainable platform growth.
• Provides technical leadership, consultation, and subject matter expertise for cloud adoption, platform modernization, infrastructure transformation, and enterprise technology initiatives.
• Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and helps deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a STEM-related field (preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting cloud-based infrastructure and services using public cloud platforms.
• 2+ years of experience implementing infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms in a production environment.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives and delivering solutions to address business and technology needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and supporting cloud platforms in highly regulated, critical infrastructure, or utility industry environments.
• Experience implementing container orchestration, cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, and enterprise observability or reliability engineering practices.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, or cloud architecture certifications.

Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud platform engineering principles, architectures, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security, governance, risk management, and compliance requirements for platform design and operations.
• Experience with automation, orchestration, and infrastructure lifecycle management practices that improve consistency and efficiency.
• Proficiency in observability, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and operational excellence methodologies that support service health and availability.
• Skill in designing scalable, resilient, and secure platform solutions that support evolving business and technology needs.
• Strong knowledge of technical standards, engineering best practices, and reusable platform patterns that support enterprise consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools and practices to analyze complex technical issues, improve automation, support operational insights, and develop solutions that balance platform stability with modernization objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical challenges and develop innovative solutions that balance operational stability with modernization objectives.
• Ability to influence technology strategy by leading technical initiatives, communicating complex concepts effectively, and providing consultation and mentorship across teams.

Key Skills: Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Information Security Management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), System Performance Monitoring

Benefits

Alliant Energy offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

Pay

Pay Range: $103,000-$141,000. This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range 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.