Platform Engineer III

McDonald's Corporation•Chicago, IL

11d

About The Position

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the foodservice industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us. From drive-thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create a positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community, and family. From the support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry, and the planet. We also offer outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance, and flexible work arrangements. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. We are interested in people who enhance our company culture: Does this role interest you? We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement! Department OverviewThis opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide outstanding foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It’s our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers. The Platform Engineer III role is part of the Edge ecosystem team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. The role collaborates with the Director, Edge Platform Engineering and will play a significant role in building and maintaining the Edge computing platform that powers our global restaurant technology ecosystem. You will work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to develop, implement, and support scalable, secure, and resilient Edge platform solutions. You will support the Digital, Data, Engineering, and Restaurant development teams by delivering a scalable, resilient, and secure platform pipelines and capabilities. This is a great opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft the transformation of infrastructure and operations products and services to the entire McDonalds environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
6+ years in platform engineering or similar field, 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 hyper-converged 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 standards, 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).

Nice To Haves

Professional certifications in GCP, AWS, or Azure.

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 ahead of on advancements in edge computing, distributed systems, and observability.
Maintain documentation for edge platform designs, configurations and deployment processes
Participate in platform reviews and supply to continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO).

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