About the Role
The Platform Engineering team delivers scalable, resilient, and secure foundational infrastructure that empowers engineering teams to build and deploy applications with speed and confidence. We champion a modern DevSecOps culture built on automation, quality, and immutability delivered entirely via code.
As a Platform Engineer II, you will serve as a cloud-native practitioner responsible for engineering, maintaining, and automating foundational self-service platform capabilities. Your primary focus will center on Kubernetes cluster operations, declarative GitOps pipelines, and scalable Cloud infrastructure (GCP) to drive developer velocity, harden security posture, and minimize time-to-market across hybrid and multi-cloud environments .
Principal Accountabilities
- Kubernetes Platform Operations: Deploy, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters (e.g., GKE) across non-production and production environments, ensuring cluster reliability, resource efficiency, and high availability .
- GitOps Delivery & Automation: Build, maintain, and standardize declarative continuous deployment pipelines using GitOps frameworks (e.g., ArgoCD), enabling automated drift detection, automated promotion blueprints, and self-healing deployments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision, standardize, and maintain immutable cloud resources across Cloud platforms (GCP preferred) utilizing modular, version-controlled Terraform modules.
- Developer Self-Service Enablement: Collaborate with senior engineers and application development teams to design and implement self-service developer workflows, reducing friction in onboarding, container packaging, and environment provisioning .
- Platform Reliability & Observability: Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to monitor cluster health, node performance, and application workloads.
- Security & Governance Enforcement: Implement policy-as-code and container security standards (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, image vulnerability scanning) to maintain a secure-by-default runtime environment.
- Operational Excellence & Incident Response: Participate in platform incident triage, conduct root cause analyses (RCAs), and build automated remediations to eliminate operational toil.
Skills & Qualifications
Primary Core Competencies (Required)- Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
- Proven hands-on experience administering and operating production-grade Kubernetes environments..
- Strong understanding of core Kubernetes primitives, including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress controllers, ConfigMaps/Secrets, RBAC, CNI networking, and CSI storage volumes.
- Experience managing containerized applications with Docker/containerd, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot cluster bottlenecks, node pool scaling, crash loops, and workload connectivity issues .
- GitOps & Declarative CI/CD
- Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining GitOps deployment models using tools such as ArgoCD..
- Solid understanding of declarative application specifications, Git-branching strategies (Trunk-based, Gitflow), PR-driven delivery, and automated configuration drift management.
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD systems (e.g.Argo Workflows) to build container images and execute automated testing stages .
- Cloud Platform & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Hands-on proficiency with a major Public Cloud platform—Google Cloud Platform (GCP) preferred, or AWS—focusing on compute, networking (VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, Cloud DNS), and IAM .
- Proficiency in writing, testing, and maintaining modular Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for cloud resource provisioning.
- Practical understanding of cloud architecture concepts (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and multi-region resilience .
Supporting Technical Skills (Required)- Systems & Scripting: Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, systems administration, and proficiency in scripting/automation using Python, Bash .
- Networking Fundamentals: Solid grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL certificates, HTTP/gRPC protocols, and internal load balancing.
- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly, document operational playbooks, and partner constructively with cross-functional development teams .
Preferred Qualifications- Experience: 3–5 years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure.
- Policy & Security: Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) or container vulnerability scanning tools.
- Progressive Delivery: Familiarity with progressive delivery patterns such as Canary releases, Blue-Green deployments, and Argo Rollouts.
CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.
At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.
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