AI-Driven Platform Engineering Lead

Intelligent Generation; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Warrants

Annual bonus

401(k)

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Intelligent Generation is seeking a platform engineering leader to own the cloud foundation behind POWR:Suite and to scale an AI‑assisted engineering model. You will drive architecture, reliability, security, and agent-based automation across the platform.

You’ll lead cloud infrastructure on GCP, define CI/CD practices, and collaborate with software, controls, and operations teams to ensure robust, scalable operations. This hybrid role blends hands‑on work with strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• 8 years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, or senior software engineering.
• Experience leading technical work across teams or mentoring engineers.
• Strong production GCP experience.
• Terraform or infrastructure‑as‑code experience.
• CI/CD ownership in production environments.
• Strong Python or equivalent engineering/scripting ability.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, observability, and operational failure modes.
• Security‑first mindset around IAM, access control, secrets, production systems, and operational risk.
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools as part of engineering work.
• Ability to build, maintain, evaluate, govern, or orchestrate agents that support engineering workflows.
• Strong systems thinking and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and operation of IG's cloud platform on GCP, including Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Terraform, networking, observability, and deployment standards.
• Build and lead CI/CD practices, release automation, environment strategy, deployment quality, and platform guardrails.
• Strengthen edge‑to‑cloud reliability and telemetry across field assets and cloud systems.
• Own security and IT operations standards for live energy infrastructure, including IAM and secrets management.
• Build, maintain, evaluate, and govern agents that support platform engineering work.
• Over time, establish a platform engineering function and governance model.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Cloud architecture

CI/CD ownership

Python scripting

Observability and reliability

AI tools in engineering

Tools

Terraform

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Intelligent Generation is seeking a platform engineering leader to own the cloud foundation behind POWR:Suite and to scale an AI‑assisted engineering model. You will drive architecture, reliability, security, and agent-based automation across the platform.

You’ll lead cloud infrastructure on GCP, define CI/CD practices, and collaborate with software, controls, and operations teams to ensure robust, scalable operations. This hybrid role blends hands‑on work with strategic leadership.