Platform Engineer, IT - DevOps and Emerging Tech

Location: Deerfield, Illinois, United States

Salary: $76,000–$95,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops vital organ therapy solutions, digital services, and advanced care technologies focused on improving outcomes for patients and care teams.

What you will do

• Build internal platforms for automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Create automation tools, workflows, reusable modules, templates, and libraries using Python and shell scripting.
• Integrate CI/CD capabilities to support secure and repeatable software deployments.
• Partner with application teams to onboard workloads and document platform architecture, usage patterns, and best practices.
• Implement security and compliance guardrails, monitoring, logging, testing, release management, and continuous platform improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; relevant work experience may substitute.
• Entry-level position; candidates with more than three years of experience are encouraged to consider other postings.
• Experience or experimentation with cloud infrastructure deployment, preferably AWS.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with Bash or PowerShell scripting.
• Understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security fundamentals, Linux environments, reusable code, and application testing.
• Ability to run NodeJS, Python, Java, and PHP applications locally, with a strong understanding of Agile methodology.

Nice to have

• AWS Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals certification.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
• Knowledge of configuration management, policy tools, platform governance, compliance controls, GitOps workflows, or developer portals.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on day one for eligible roles.
• Life, accident, disability, and business travel accident insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan and financial education resources.
• Educational assistance, paid holidays, 20–35 days of paid time off based on length of service, family and medical leave, and paid parental leave.
• Commuting benefits, employee discounts, employee assistance, and childcare benefits.