Apply on Employer Site

McDonald's · 1 month ago

Platform Engineer II

Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$104K/yr - $131K/yr

4+ years exp

McDonald's is a leading global omni-channel restaurant brand focused on technology innovation to enhance customer experience. The Platform Engineer II role is critical in building and maintaining the Edge computing platform, collaborating with engineering teams to design and implement scalable and secure solutions.

Restaurants

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Assist in the 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

Support performance tuning, reliability improvements, and security hardening of edge environments

Participate in implementing failover and disaster recovery strategies for edge deployments

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

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

Build 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

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

Cloud technologiesKubernetesDockerInfrastructure-as-CodeEdge computingVirtualization technologiesProgramming languagesObservability toolsNetworking protocolsSecurity best practicesSystem performance tuning

Required

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

4+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related discipline

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

2 Years experience with edge computing or on-prem cloud environments

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

Exposure to virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V)

Knowledge of software-defined storage concepts and basic backup/recovery strategies

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform) and automation scripting

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

Benefits

Health and welfare benefits

A 401(k) plan

Adoption assistance program

Educational assistance program

Flexible ways of working

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

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)