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Senior Platform Engineer

Focused
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted
19 days ago
Department
Engineering
Salary
$130,000 - $180,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 3+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK)
  • Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
  • Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their observability services
  • Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman) and container registries
  • Experience implementing SRE practices including error budgets and toil metrics
Nice to have
  • Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their application in DevOps
  • Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Experience with AI/ML model deployment and monitoring in production environments
  • Strong technical writing and documentation skills
  • Ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
What the job really is

The Senior Platform Engineer at Focused will be responsible for enhancing and scaling client infrastructure through platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and cloud DevOps practices. Day-to-day tasks will include implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions, managing Kubernetes clusters, building CI/CD pipelines, and establishing observability frameworks across various cloud platforms. The role also involves incident management and optimizing performance and scalability of systems.

Things to weigh
  • Role requires being in the Chicago office three days per week and up to 20% travel within the United States.
  • Focused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of the employment Visa process at this time.
  • Base salary range is specified as $130,000 - $180,000.
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