Lead Platform Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & DevOps Architect

Referrals Only; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Referrals Only in Chicago is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and maintain foundational infrastructure, develop developer tools, APIs, and integrations that automate workflows and streamline processes for agile software delivery.

You will empower teams to independently provision and manage their own pipelines, including CI/CD, source control, and artifact repositories, while upholding security, scalability, and performance through IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable platform infrastructure.
• Proven experience with GCP and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong automation and IaC background with Terraform.
• Hands-on CI/CD and GitOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable platform infrastructure to support the development and production environments.
• Drive automation and CI/CD pipelines for the platform, improving the speed and efficiency of deployments and operations.
• Ensure the platform's security, scalability, and high availability, meeting the business needs and operational SLAs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, incidents, and outages, and ensure root cause analysis is performed and communicated.
• Implement and oversee the use of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and manage cloud infrastructure services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to define and manage platform resources.
• Support the adoption of DevOps and GitOps practices to streamline deployments, enhance collaboration, and reduce manual intervention.
• Actively participate in performance tuning and optimization for cloud-based applications and infrastructure, ensuring long-term sustainability and performance.

Skills

GCP services

Terraform

Ansible/Chef

CI/CD/GitOps

Observability tooling

Cloud security

NoSQL databases

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Java

Python

Go

Bash

Performance optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus/Grafana

Datadog/New Relic/ELK

AWS/Azure

Job description

Referrals Only in Chicago is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and maintain foundational infrastructure, develop developer tools, APIs, and integrations that automate workflows and streamline processes for agile software delivery.

You will empower teams to independently provision and manage their own pipelines, including CI/CD, source control, and artifact repositories, while upholding security, scalability, and performance through IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud services.