Cloud Engineer II

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Date: Aug 26, 2025

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. 

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements. 

Department Overview

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide best-in-class foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It’s our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers.

The Cloud Platform Engineer II role is part of the Cloud Ecosystem team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations.  The role reports to the Cloud Platform Senior Manager and is responsible for supporting and maturing a Enterprise DevOps pipeline in Cloud.  As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in crafting the definition, vision, design, road map and development of product features from beginning to end. You will support the Digital, Data, Engineering, and Restaurant development teams by delivering a scalable, resilient, and secure Cloud DevOps Pipeline and supporting tooling.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help shape the transformation of infrastructure and operations products and services to the entire McDonalds environment.

Duties

  • Automate the provisioning of cloud environments through the concept of pipeline engineering using Terraform, Chef, Puppet and other tools.
  • Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows in the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
  • While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud.
  • Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.
  • Remain up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.
  • Lead and facilitate the creation of compliance automation and policy-as-code to streamline cloud governance.
  • Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.
  • Effectively communicate project health, risks and issues to the program stakeholders, sponsors and management teams.Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to senior management.
  • Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.
  • Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
  • Work well in an agile environment
  • Build, implement, and support tools that improve customer experience.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of Cloud development and support experience such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a Bachelor’s degree or 3 years relevant experience and a Master’s degree.
  • Experience developing design specifications, test plans, and protocols.
  • Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Professional level certification (AWS DevOps Professional, GCP Kubernetes Professional) or similar is a plus
  • Experience in software development (e.g. C#, .Net, .Net core) or scripting (e.g. Python, Powershell, etc.).
  • Associate GCP Certification OR Associate AWS certifications (e.g. Developer, Solution Architect, or SysOps Administrator Associate).
  • Good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS and/or GCP
  • Good knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies (e.g. repos, pipelines, Terraform, etc.).
  • Strong experience in Kubernetes. Knowledge of GKE, EKS
  • Innate desire to automate everything you touch.
  • Self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and execute on those solutions while coordinating with other teams.
  • Infrastructure experience is a plus
  • Ability to create system and process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence and UML diagrams, inter and intra system dependencies within the functional domain and across them
  • Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
  • Abiity to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in building in templates and pipelines while complying with static code analysis tools and security scanners. Experience with CI/CD tools.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - scripting and automation via Bash, JSON templates etc.
  • Strong experience in building Kubernetes environment.

 

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: EDIT

Benefits Eligible: EDIT

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $98,140 - $125,130 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Competencies

Execution Proficiency
Background & Values
Strategic Proficiency
Building Blocks
Talent Proficiency

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance. 

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis. 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 


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