Temporal - Infrastructure Engineering Lead

TEKsystems; United States; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Time Off/Leave

Hybrid work model

Job summary

TEKsystems in Bloomington, IL is seeking a senior platform engineer focused on Temporal to lead a new team and partner with developers and business units.

You will own hands-on deployment of Temporal in cloud environments, integrate with pipelines, and establish best practices. The role requires strong Go and Kubernetes skills, extensive production ops experience, and the ability to communicate across teams. This is a contract-to-hire hybrid role based in Bloomington.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or infra with production systems.
• Experience configuring enterprise SSO and cloud integrations.
• Deploying and scaling containerized runtimes on OpenShift/Kubernetes; GitOps.
• Proficiency with Go and Temporal SDKs; incident response practice.

Responsibilities

• Be the face of the team and coordinate with stakeholders.
• Onboard developers to the Temporal platform and establish best practices.
• Operate a durable, multi-tenant platform across boundaries.
• Ensure reliability, security, and maintainability in production.

Skills

Temporal experience

Go programming

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Cloud experience

GitOps / IaC

Observability

Incident response

Temporal SDKs

Multi-tenant / shared service

OpenShift

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

OpenShift

Job description

Description

Candidate will have experience working with Temporal, building out the foundation across business partners and developers across a large enterprise and assist in leading initiatives as Temporal is being consumed.

Focus, open source product called Temporal (vendor Temporal Cloud) as a strategic offering that they want to consume,

Must have Temporal experience ***

Foundation to his team, Temporal- hands on operational experience on a large scale-

This person will be the face of the team, customer interactions, other development teams will work with this , will on board them to the platform, best practices to use with Temporal.

Good Communication, technical skills

Must have hands on experience with the product- not self hosting, host it in your cloud- Temporal itself with integration with developer pipelines,*** not hands on infrastructure–

Containers, Kubernetes- eventing alerting, some scripting some development--

Amazon Step Functions, workflow orchestration product (similar product) **** write code to run into that environment, temporal keeps track of that , durable execution, know with certainty workflow will complete--

3rd level team, early standing up this team, good communicator----- foundational member of this team, pressure

Technical Skills

-5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of operating production distributed systems. Deep, hands‑on platform engineering

-experience across cloud, Kubernetes/OpenShift, or managed service environments. Experience configuring enterprise SSO and integrating cloud services with identity providers, role mapping, service identities, and access controls. Experience deploying and scaling containerized application runtimes on OpenShift or Kubernetes, including resource policies, autoscaling, networking, secrets, and GitOps promotion. Strong understanding of distributed systems and durable data, including availability, consistency, backup and recovery, retention, and performance trade-offs. Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD or equivalent).

-Production observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). Comfort operating a service across internal and vendor‑owned boundaries and

-defining clear operational responsibilities. Excellent judgment on reliability, security, and irreversible design trade‑offs; able to work independently as a

-founding team member. Hands‑on experience with Temporal (or a comparable durable‑execution / workflow engine such as Cadence) — administering or

-integrating the platform, not just building workflows against it. Experience running platforms as an internal shared service (multi‑tenant, namespace isolation,

-developer enablement.

-Proficiency in Go; familiarity with Temporal SDKs (Java, Go, TypeScript). Cloud, enterprise networking, private connectivity, identity,

-and managed‑service integration depth. Experience establishing on‑call practices and incident response for a new service.

Skills

Temporal, container orchestration, scripting, pipeline

Additional Skills & Qualifications

https://github.com/temporal-api

Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Bloomington, IL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $70.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job‑related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your jobclassification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may besubject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefitsavailable for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD& D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Bloomington,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 30, 2026.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francesco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.