BHE Compression Services · 7 hours ago
Sr Cloud Automation Engineer
4299 NW Urbandale Dr, Urbandale, IA, 50322, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$117K/yr - $147K/yr
10+ years expMidAmerican Energy Company is a Midwest utility providing regulated electric and natural gas service to over 1.6 million customers. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Automation Engineer to advance their automation initiatives, focusing on architecting and maintaining automation frameworks across hybrid cloud platforms.
Oil & Energy
Responsibilities
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)
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
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
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.)
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
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
Preferred
Azure DevOps certification (AZ-400) a big plus
Company
BHE Compression Services
leader in environmentally clean, low-emission, large-horsepower contract compression services.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Michael Robbins
President & CEO
Recent News
2022-03-04
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