Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, Terraform | Remote

Specialist Staffing Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 103,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote collaboration options where job

Job summary

Specialist Staffing Group is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our infrastructure team in Chicago, IL. This contract role focuses on designing, building and maintaining cloud-native platforms that enable development teams to deploy and operate applications at scale.

You'll work with Kubernetes clusters, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines, delivering automation, observability and reliability across deployments.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud operations, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong experience designing and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling and practices.
• Demonstrated experience with monitoring, logging and observability platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration infrastructure.
• Developing and managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and similar tools.
• Implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Building and supporting observability, monitoring and logging solutions.
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to reduce friction in application deployment and operations.
• Improving platform reliability, performance and security through automation and standardization.
• Documenting infrastructure patterns, runbooks and operational procedures.
• Participating in on-call rotations and incident response activities.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Cloud infrastructure design

CI/CD proficiency

Observability and monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS/Azure/GCP

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring/logging tools

Job description

Specialist Staffing Group is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our infrastructure team in Chicago, IL. This contract role focuses on designing, building and maintaining cloud-native platforms that enable development teams to deploy and operate applications at scale.

You'll work with Kubernetes clusters, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines, delivering automation, observability and reliability across deployments.