HBITS-08-14979-Cloud Engineer-Mid- Level

Knowledge Builders; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowledge Builders in Wisconsin is seeking a mid-level Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and maintain an internal platform that accelerates software delivery. You will work under the guidance of senior engineers to implement scalable CI/CD pipelines, Terraform-based GCP provisioning, and deployment automation.

Responsibilities include managing GKE workloads, observability with Splunk and SonarQube, and migrating resources to Terraform while collaborating in Agile ceremonies to ensure

Qualifications

• 60 months of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems administration, incl. 2+ years in a public cloud (GCP preferred).
• 36 months of experience with GCP including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, and Secret Manager.
• 36 months of experience with Terraform in established patterns.
• 36 months of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• 36 months of experience with GitHub workflows and PR management.
• 24 months of experience in an Agile delivery environment, incl. sprint ceremonies.
• 12 months of experience with Splunk for log analysis and observability.
• 12 months of experience with SonarQube in CI/CD pipelines.
• Bachelor's Degree and relevant cloud certs (Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer or Terraform Associate).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting development workflows.
• Author and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning.
• Support and maintain Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines; troubleshoot and document.
• Maintain SonarQube and GitHub integration for static analysis and security scanning.
• Manage build artifacts using GCP Artifact Registry.
• Support the observability stack including Splunk logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Support GKE cluster operations including workload deployments and namespace management.
• Manage GCP resources across dev, test, and production environments.
• Migrate manually provisioned GCP resources into Terraform.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint delivery.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Terraform Associate (HashiCorp)

Tools

Terraform

GCP Compute Engine

GCP Cloud Storage

GCP IAM

GCP Secret Manager

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

GitHub

SonarQube

Splunk

GKE

Artifact Registry

Job description

Job Description

Project/Program:

The Platform Engineer (Mid-Level) is an engineering role on the newly established DFS Platform Services team. This role contributes directly to building, operating, and maintaining the internal platform that enables development and operations teams to ship software faster and more reliably. The candidate will work under the guidance of the Lead and Senior Platform Engineers in a structured, mentorship-rich environment.

Day-to-day Tasks:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting development team delivery workflows.
• Author and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning following established standards and patterns.
• Support and maintain existing Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines, including troubleshooting and documentation.
• Maintain the SonarQube and GitHub integration for static code analysis and security scanning.
• Manage build artifacts using GCP Artifact Registry.
• Support the observability stack including Splunk log forwarding, monitoring, and alerting.
• Support GKE cluster operations including workload deployments and namespace management.
• Manage GCP resources including compute, networking, IAM, and secrets management across dev, test, and production environments.
• Migrate manually provisioned GCP resources into Terraform.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint delivery.

Mandatory Qualifications:

Cloud Engineer--

Applies engineering disciplines to cloud computing and brings a systematic approach to concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance of cloud computing applications. Leverages the methods and tools of engineering in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems and solutions. Uses the economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.

Mid-Level:

36 - 60 months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance.

Requested Qualifications:

• 60 months of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems administration, including at least 2 years in a public cloud environment (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered).
• 36 months of experience with GCP, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC networking, IAM, and Secret Manager.
• 36 months of experience with Terraform, including reading, writing, and modifying infrastructure code within established patterns.
• 36 months of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• 36 months of experience with GitHub and Git workflows, including pull requests and branch management.
• 24 months of experience in an Agile delivery environment, including sprint ceremonies and iterative delivery.
• 12 months of experience with Splunk for log analysis and observability.
• 12 months of experience with static code analysis tools such as SonarQube within a CI/CD pipeline.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer or Terraform Associate (HashiCorp).

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected basis.