Overview
Skills
Job Details
Role: Platform Engineer Work Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: Long term
Certifications (Preferred)
Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
"Experienced engineer responsible for building, maintaining, and automating cloud platforms
and development toolchains. Focus on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and developer
experience enhancement."
"Experience Requirements
- Minimum: + years in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
Preferred: 6+ years with enterprise-scale automation and tooling
Industry: Experience with high-velocity development environments
Technical Skills= Platform Engineering
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Cloud Build)
Container orchestration and management (Kubernetes, Docker)
Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Monitoring and logging platform development
Developer tooling and self-service platforms
Development & Automation
Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
API development and integration
Microservices and distributed systems
Database management and optimization
Testing automation and quality assurance
Security scanning and compliance automation
Google Cloud Platform Skills (Required)
Platform Services
Development: Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Container Registry
Compute: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GCE
Storage: Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Persistent Disks
Networking: VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud Endpoints
Monitoring: Cloud Operations, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace
DevOps & Automation
Cloud Deployment Manager and Terraform on Google Cloud Platform
Anthos for application modernization
Binary Authorization and container security
Cloud KMS for secrets management
Pub/Sub for event-driven architectures"
Other Skills
Collaboration: Strong teamwork with development and operations teams
Problem Solving: Systematic approach to troubleshooting and optimization
Documentation: Clear technical documentation and knowledge sharing
Mentoring: Ability to guide junior engineers and share best practices
Agile: Experience with Agile development methodologies
Quality: Focus on code quality, testing, and continuous improvement