Platform Engineer

JD:
Role: Platform Engineer
Work Location: Chicago, IL Onsite
Contract
JOB DESCRIPTION:
"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"