Platform Engineering & AI Operations Lead

Intelligent Generation•Oak Brook, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Intelligent Generation’s mission is to empower businesses to engage the clean energy grid. Intelligent Generation builds and operates POWR:Suite, a software platform that helps battery energy storage assets make highly profitable economic decisions. POWR:Suite connects distributed energy assets to wholesale power markets while also optimizing behind-the-meter value: reducing utility bills, managing demand charges, improving asset performance, supporting resilience, and helping customers capture the full economic value of their energy assets. Our work sits at the intersection of energy markets, grid operations, customer savings, software automation, telemetry, and AI-assisted decision-making. We are looking for a platform engineering leader who can own the infrastructure foundation behind POWR:Suite and help IG scale an AI-assisted engineering and operating model. This is a leadership role. You will be hands-on early, but the expectation is that you will grow into leading people, establishing platform standards, and orchestrating AI agents that improve engineering delivery, reliability, security, and operations.

Requirements

8+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, or senior software engineering
Experience leading technical work across teams or mentoring engineers
Strong production GCP experience
Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience
CI/CD ownership in production environments
Strong Python or equivalent engineering/scripting ability
Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, observability, and operational failure modes
Security-first mindset around IAM, access control, secrets, production systems, and operational risk
Hands-on experience using AI tools as part of engineering work
Ability to build, maintain, evaluate, govern, or orchestrate agents that support engineering workflows
Strong systems thinking and ownership mindset

Nice To Haves

Energy, industrial, IoT, SCADA, or OT-adjacent experience
Familiarity with DNP3, Modbus, ICCP, or similar protocols
Experience with agentic AI systems, tool use, evals, or AI-assisted operations
GCP Professional certification
Experience building or leading a platform engineering team

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and operation of IG’s cloud platform on GCP, including Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Terraform, networking, observability, and deployment standards.
Build and lead the practices that make engineering delivery faster, safer, and more repeatable. Own CI/CD, release automation, environment strategy, deployment quality, and platform guardrails.
Strengthen the communication layer between field assets and cloud systems. Partner with software, controls, and operations teams to improve telemetry, command paths, failure detection, and recovery patterns.
Own practical security and IT operations standards for a company operating live energy infrastructure, including IAM lifecycle, endpoint standards, secrets management, access controls, and production system hygiene.
Build, maintain, evaluate, and govern agents that support platform engineering work, including deployment assistants, infrastructure review agents, security review agents, incident summarizers, documentation agents, and operational troubleshooting agents.
Over time, build and lead a platform engineering function. Establish how work is divided between engineers and agents, how agent outputs are reviewed, and how platform knowledge compounds over time.