Chicago, IllinoisHybridDirect Hire$160k - $190kLead Infrastructure Software Engineer (Platform Engineering):
A leading Chicago-area enterprise is looking to hire a Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer to join their growing Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll help build and scale cloud-native platforms, automation tools, and self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to deploy and manage applications more efficiently. You'll work heavily with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud infrastructure while helping drive best practices across the organization.
This is an opportunity to make a broad impact by improving developer experience, influencing cloud architecture decisions, and building solutions used across multiple engineering teams. You'll also have the chance to mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and help shape the future of the company's platform capabilities.Required Skills & Experience5+ years of experience in Cloud, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes in production environments Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks Programming experience with Python, Java, or similar languages
Desired Skills & ExperienceExperience building internal developer platforms or self-service tools Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and cloud-native architectures Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects AWS certification(s) are a plus Experience working in large-scale enterprise cloud environments
A leading Chicago-area enterprise is looking to hire a Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer to join their growing Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll help build and scale cloud-native platforms, automation tools, and self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to deploy and manage applications more efficiently. You'll work heavily with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud infrastructure while helping drive best practices across the organization.
This is an opportunity to make a broad impact by improving developer experience, influencing cloud architecture decisions, and building solutions used across multiple engineering teams. You'll also have the chance to mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and help shape the future of the company's platform capabilities.Required Skills & Experience5+ years of experience in Cloud, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes in production environments Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks Programming experience with Python, Java, or similar languages
Desired Skills & ExperienceExperience building internal developer platforms or self-service tools Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and cloud-native architectures Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects AWS certification(s) are a plus Experience working in large-scale enterprise cloud environments
Lead Platform Engineer in chicago at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and hybrid.