Job Summary:
MidAmerican Energy Company is a Midwest utility that provides regulated electric and natural gas service to over 1.6 million customers. They are seeking a Senior Platform System Admin to lead and develop technical solutions, support enterprise application systems, and ensure the health of 24x7 applications.
Responsibilities:
• Leads and develops technical solutions to address business problems.
• Works with IT and Business Leadership to promote innovative and integrated solutions across the organization and demonstrates proficiency in all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – through requirements gathering, project leadership, architecting, developing, testing, modifying and supporting enterprise application systems for internal and external customers as well as vendor partners.
• Provides problem solving and troubleshooting in support of application environments.
• Communicate effectively vis multiple channels (written and verbal) including composing and delivering executive level presentations and communicating with OS administrators in identifying and resolving issues related to highly visible/customer facing 24x7 enterprise applications.
• Takes ownership of platform/application health checks on 24x7 enterprise applications.
• Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple issues and projects concurrently.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ten or more years of related experience, including 5 years of related progressive work experiences in software development.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of modern programming and IT architecture concepts including cloud native design, microservices, containerization; cloud model architectures and distributed, high volume computing design; designing and deploying applications and architectures for resiliency and continuous availability; working with event driven streaming architectures; developing diagnostic and configuration tools to improve deployment and operation of web apps, mobile apps, and 3rd party integrations; virtualized infrastructure and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Technical experience with Linux and OS tools and monitoring, containers and orchestration technologies, DevOps via CI/CD, automated configuration, provisioning and deployment tools.
• Hands-on experience of relational (Oracle, PL/SQL/Postgres) and no SQL databases (Couchbase) upgrades and security/application patching.
• Communicate effectively vis multiple channels (written and verbal) including composing and delivering executive level presentations and communicating with OS administrators in identifying and resolving issues related to highly visible/customer facing 24x7 enterprise applications.
• Problem solving skills, initiative, and the ability to thrive under pressure and with changes in requirements.
• Takes ownership of platform/application health checks on 24x7 enterprise applications.
• Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple issues and projects concurrently.
Company:
MidAmerican Energy Company is an electric and natural gas service provider in Iowa. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Des Moines, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.