Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
A global hedgefund is looking to bring on a Cloud Engineer to their team.
Salary: 175,000 - 250,000 base salary with annual discretionary bonus.
Responsibilities:
Mentor team members and manage public cloud environments
Collaborate with developers and stakeholders for cloud solutions
Automate and optimize infrastructure and application deployment
Develop self-service cloud capabilities
Implement and support cloud applications and systems
Promote cloud adoption and provide a platform as a product
Participate in on-call rotation and maintenance
Tech Stack:
AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux, Windows, Containerd, Podman, OCI, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry
Cultural Fit:
Ambitious, eager to learn, driven, strong communicator, multi-tasker, problem solver, agile team leader
Technical Fit:
7+ years in large-scale cloud services (AWS preferred)
Bachelor's in engineering or related field
Expert in infrastructure automation (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
Strong in AWS products, Kubernetes, cloud-native security, FinOps, automation scripting (Python, Bash), Linux, networking, container technologies, disaster recovery, CI/CD tools
Bonus Points:
Cloud architecture and strategy experience
Open-source contributions
AWS, Kubernetes certifications
Experience with Ansible, AI/ML infrastructure, platform engineering
Role must sit in firms Chicago office.
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