Cloud Platform Engineer || Oakbrook, Chicago(Day One Onsite)

Role: Cloud Platform Engineer

• 6–8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps, with strong software development skills. 
  
• Proficiency in C#, Node.js, and/or TypeScript, with the ability to write production code rather than glue scripts alone. 
  
• Deep AWS experience (primary platform); Azure or GCP backgrounds are acceptable. 
  
• Strong Terraform or Infrastructure-as-Code expertise, including the ability to design and maintain complex, multi-environment infrastructure codebases. 
  
• Linux-native day-to-day proficiency (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Alpine, etc.); primarily Windows-based backgrounds are not a fit. 
  
• Hands-on container experience (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS), including building, deploying, and troubleshooting containerized workloads in production. 
  
• Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, VPCs, and cloud-native networking patterns. 
  
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English. 
  
• Preferred: Experience with IoT platforms, edge computing, or autonomous systems; real-time data pipelines and stream processing (Kafka, KSQL, Kinesis); internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-service toolchains; distributed-systems patterns (event-driven architectures, pub/sub messaging, active/active multi-region deployments); databases across relational and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch); and AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).