Cloud Platform Engineer C2c Oakbrook

Role:
Cloud Platform Engineer

Location:

Oakbrook, Chicago(Day One Onsite)

6–8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or Dev Ops, with strong software development skills.

Proficiency in C#, Node.js, and/or Type Script, 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 tool chains; distributed-systems patterns (event-driven architectures, pub/sub messaging, active/active multi-region deployments); databases across relational and No

SQL (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis,Elastic Search); and AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Dev Ops Engineer).