Lead Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & AI Pipelines

IFS; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401K with company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Volunteer events

Job summary

Nexus Black, part of IFS, seeks a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure powering Resolve, Flow, Comply and Reason. You’ll design infrastructure as code, set Kubernetes standards, and enable product teams to deploy and operate services with confidence.

You’ll lead engineers, enforce security defaults, and drive reliable multi‑zone deployments. This is production‑grade platform work for AI/ML workloads in industrial settings.

Qualifications

• Cloud-native platforms built and operated at scale.
• High availability, fault tolerance, scaling strategy, and secure infrastructure design.
• Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems.
• AI/ML or LLM workloads in production, not a lab.
• Ability to explain a technical decision to someone without your vocabulary.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Own the Kubernetes platform — GKE workload standards, deployment models, multi-zone resilience, resource limits and safe failure modes.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows that make deploys unremarkable: rolling and canary patterns, rollback in minutes, deployment-related incidents at zero.
• Make security the default across infrastructure, pipelines and runtime.
• Build observability teams can act on — alerts that mean something at 3am, and self‑service dashboards for engineers.
• Lead and mentor the engineers building on your platform, and forecast their needs six months ahead.

Skills

Cloud-native platforms

High availability

Troubleshooting distributed systems

AI/ML workloads in production

Technical decision explaining

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Istio

Gateway API

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

Nexus Black, part of IFS, seeks a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure powering Resolve, Flow, Comply and Reason. You’ll design infrastructure as code, set Kubernetes standards, and enable product teams to deploy and operate services with confidence.

You’ll lead engineers, enforce security defaults, and drive reliable multi‑zone deployments. This is production‑grade platform work for AI/ML workloads in industrial settings.