Lead Platform Engineer

Platform Engineering Role

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

The Role We Want You For

We're building a Platform Engineering function inside our Infrastructure Services organization with architectural and technical leadership at its core. The mission is clear: design, build, and lead the evolution of a platform that makes it easy to build and operate reliable infrastructure and delivery workflows - first for our cloud and network engineering teams, and then for partners across application integrations, data engineering, and technologist business teams. We're looking for a technically exceptional engineer who has built platform toolchains and infrastructure automation from the ground up. Someone ready to take technical ownership: architecting solutions, executing on technical direction, and leading the implementation of how infrastructure gets built and shipped across the organization. This isn't a role where you're handed a mature platform and asked to maintain it. This is a role where you architect and build the foundation from scratch - designing the systems, modules, and automated workflows that become the organizational standard. You'll drive the technical implementation, establish patterns, and help shape how platform engineering evolves here. And importantly: we're AI-forward by design. Senior leadership is all-in on AI, and we want someone who is genuinely excited to apply AI to infrastructure automation, delivery workflows, and operational excellence not as a buzzword, but as a multiplier.

The Specifics of the Role

You'll architect and lead the technical implementation of reusable building blocks and infrastructure automation that make delivery consistent, safe, and fast across the organization. Working with leadership on direction, you'll own the execution and drive adoption:

• CI/CD golden paths
• Terraform modules that encode best practices
• AI-first workflows for infrastructure and operations

Requirements

• Terraform/Terraform Cloud expertise
• Git/GitHub mastery
• Cloud architecture expertise in Azure or AWS
• Software engineering discipline
• AI-forward technical leadership
• Datadog
• Ansible
• Networking fundamentals
• Kubernetes / Docker
• Workflow automation platforms

Some Things You Should Know

• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!
• This position is classified as a safety-sensitive role in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Candidates selected for this position will be subject to a comprehensive background check, which includes mandatory drug testing.

Why Clayco?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.