Platform Engineer

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Full Time
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Plform & Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid Chicago, IL

Salary: $135,000

About the Role:

A rapidly growing SaaS technology company
is seeking a Plform & Infrastructure Engineer
to help design, build, and opere the cloud infrastructure th powers its product plform. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building scalable infrastructure, improving system reliability, and enabling engineering teams to move faster through strong plform foundions.

You will work in a small, highly collaborive team responsible for the companys Azure- based infrastructure , with a strong focus on Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS) . This is a hands- on engineering role where you will help build and maintain the core plform supporting product development, reliability, and uptime.

If you are passione about cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operions, and building reliable plforms for SaaS applicions , this role offers the opportunity to have significant ownership and impact.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure
    supporting a production SaaS plform

  • Manage and opere Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS)
    clusters for scalability, reliability, and performance

  • Support high- availability infrastructure
    with strong uptime and reliability standards

  • Build and improve infrastructure th enables engineering teams to deploy and opere services efficiently

  • Develop and maintain CI/ CD pipelines
    to support reliable applicion delivery

  • Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting systems
    to maintain plform health

  • Manage identity, access control, and infrastructure security across cloud environments

  • Collabore with engineering teams to define and improve plform standards, tooling, and infrastructure pterns

  • Maintain documention, runbooks, and operional procedures to support reliable plform operions

Required Qualificions

  • 4+ years of hands- on Azure cloud infrastructure experience

  • Strong experience opering Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS) or Kubernetes in production environments

  • Experience supporting high- availability SaaS or cloud- nive applicions

  • Knowledge of cloud networking concepts
    including virtual networks, DNS, and secure connectivity

  • Experience building or maintaining CI/ CD pipelines ( GitHub Actions or similar tools)

  • Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions ( Grafana or similar)

  • Experience managing identity and access controls
    in Azure environments

Preferred Qualificions

  • Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD

  • Experience with Terraform or infrastructure- as- code tools

  • Experience supporting site reliability engineering ( SRE) practices

  • Background building or improving plform infrastructure for engineering teams

  • Experience working in SaaS or cloud- nive software companies

Benefits

  • Unlimited Vacion Policy?+ Sick Time + Holidays

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Fully Remote Opportunity

  • Healthcare Benefits and 401K

  • Growing Startup Culture

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Job ID: 523012913
Originally Posted on: 5/30/2026

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