Apply on Employer Site

McDonald's · 2 months ago

Platform Engineer III

Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $173K/yr

6+ years exp

McDonald's is a leading global omni-channel restaurant brand focused on technology innovation to enhance customer experience. The Platform Engineer III will play a critical role in building and maintaining the Edge computing platform that supports the global restaurant technology ecosystem, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions.

Restaurants

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, release and maintain edge platforms and infrastructure

Collaborate with platform architects, engineers and suppliers to implement scalable and modular, fault tolerant edge platform deployments

Optimize edge platform and underlying infrastructure for performance, reliability, and security

Implement strategies for failover, disaster recovery, and zero-touch provisioning at the edge

Partner on hardware sizing and provisioning of system resources for edge workloads

Implement and manage virtualization and/or containerized environments for edge deployments

Implement and manage data replication, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for edge environments

Design, build and implement orchestration framework for managing VM based and containerized workloads across edge clusters

Integrate Edge platform tools with GCP for hybrid workload deployments

Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code templates for edge environments

Build reusable automation frameworks to streamline deployment and configuration

Enable self-service adoption of edge platform standards across cross-functional teams

Evaluate emerging edge technologies, conduct PoCs, and drive technical feasibility studies

Stay current on advancements in edge computing, distributed systems, and observability

Maintain documentation for edge platform designs, configurations and deployment processes

Participate in platform reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives

Qualification

Edge computingCloud technologiesKubernetesInfrastructure-as-CodeDockerVirtualization technologiesProgramming languagesObservability toolsNetworking protocolsSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

6+ years in platform engineering or similar discipline, with 3+ years focused on edge computing or on-prem cloud

5+ years working with Cloud technologies with good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in GCP & AWS

Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration in edge or cloud environments

Familiarity with edge hardware infrastructure (servers, IoT devices) and performance tuning

Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V) and hyperconverged infrastructure

Knowledge of software-defined storage systems (e.g., Ceph, Robin.io) and strategies for data replication, backup, and disaster recovery in edge environments

Proficiency in programming languages: Go, Python, Rust, PowerShell

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks

Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)

Solid understanding of networking protocols, security best practices, and system performance tuning

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and hybrid edge-cloud architectures

Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm) as supporting skills

Familiarity with real-time data frameworks (Apache Kafka, Flink)

Professional certifications in GCP, AWS, or Azure

Benefits

Health and welfare benefits

401(k) plan

Adoption assistance program

Educational assistance program

Flexible ways of working

Time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO)

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Company

McDonald's

Glassdoor3.6

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries.

Founded in 1955

Chicago, Illinois, US

10001+ employees

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/

H1B Sponsorship

McDonald's has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (61)

2024 (77)

2023 (37)

2022 (31)

2021 (60)

2020 (12)