Infrastructure Platform Engineer - W2 Only, No 3rd Party (Chicago)

Role: Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Location: Chicago IL, Onsite, no relocation

Duration: 6 months, with possible extensions

Pay rate: $65 - 75/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C

Job summary:

The Infrastructure Platform Engineer will design, deploy, integrate, and operationalize internal platform services that help engineering teams monitor infrastructure, deploy tools consistently, connect systems, and automate technical workflows. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning Linux, containers, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, internal web services, observability platforms, APIs, and governed AI-enabled automation.

Required skills:

• Hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Practical Linux administration experience, including command-line tools, filesystems, permissions, processes, services, packages, networking, and logs.
• Hands-on experience with Docker or another container runtime and working knowledge of container orchestration concepts.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
• Experience with Git-based development, code review, debugging, testing, documentation, and release workflows.
• Experience deploying or supporting APIs, web services, integrations, or automation workflows.

Please send resume ASAP.