Platform Engineer, Observability & AWS (Hybrid)

CJ; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 73,150 - 107,744; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Team‑building events

Employee Referral Program

401k matching

Job summary

CJ seeks a Software Engineer 2 for its EngExp platform team. You’ll operate production systems across multiple AWS regions, focusing on Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work with Terraform, ArgoCD, Nexus, and a modern tech stack to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, grow depth in at least one system, and contribute to reliability and automation while enjoying a hybrid work model in CJ offices."

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable with terminal and reading YAML, Terraform, or similar declarative config.
• Some exposure to cloud (AWS or equivalent) and containers; production Kubernetes experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Pick up well-scoped platform work across the systems and ship it end to end.
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps delivery through ArgoCD.
• Write and review infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for AWS resources.
• Add and tune observability with Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards.
• Help fulfill and automate recurring requests (ingress, DNS, IAM roles).
• Investigate platform incidents and document learnings.

Skills

Software engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD

Nexus

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

CJ seeks a Software Engineer 2 for its EngExp platform team. You’ll operate production systems across multiple AWS regions, focusing on Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work with Terraform, ArgoCD, Nexus, and a modern tech stack to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, grow depth in at least one system, and contribute to reliability and automation while enjoying a hybrid work model in CJ offices."