JOB DESCRIPTION:
Role: Platform Engineer
Work Location: Chicago, IL
"Experienced engineer responsible for building, maintaining, and automating cloud platforms
and development toolchains. Focus on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and developer
experience enhancement."
"Experience Requirements
- Minimum: 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
- Preferred: 6+ years with enterprise-scale automation and tooling
- Industry: Experience with high-velocity development environments
Technical Skills
Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
- CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Cloud Build)
- Container orchestration and management (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Monitoring and logging platform development
- Developer tooling and self-service platforms
Development & Automation
- Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
- API development and integration
- Microservices and distributed systems
- Database management and optimization
- Testing automation and quality assurance
- Security scanning and compliance automation
GCP Skills (Required)
Platform Services
Development: Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Container Registry
Compute: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GCE
Storage: Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Persistent Disks
Networking: VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud Endpoints
Monitoring: Cloud Operations, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace
DevOps & Automation
- Cloud Deployment Manager and Terraform on GCP
- Anthos for application modernization
- Binary Authorization and container security
- Cloud KMS for secrets management
- Pub/Sub for event-driven architectures"
Certifications (Preferred)
OPTIONAL SKILLS & SKILL PROFICIENCY
- Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Other Skills
- Collaboration: Strong teamwork with development and operations teams
- Problem Solving: Systematic approach to troubleshooting and optimization
- Documentation: Clear technical documentation and knowledge sharing
- Mentoring: Ability to guide junior engineers and share best practices
- Agile: Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Quality: Focus on code quality, testing, and continuous improvement
Soemia Pineda
SubCo Staffing Center
