Infrastructure Engineer I

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Date: Oct 14, 2026

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.  

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.   

That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.   

Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.  

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 Engineer I (Restaurant Systems Management - RSM) is part of the Restaurant Infrastructure & Operations Platform team within Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations (GTIO). This role reports to the Senior Technical Product Manager (RSM) and is responsible for RSM Engineering / Development, integration with other Restaurant and Enterprise systems, and setting patterns and direction for development. The RSM platform includes tools, processes, and services related to restaurant device configuration and management, compliance, software installation and security patching.

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

  • Create, maintain, and support software package standards and runbook.
  • Create automation to collect RSM KPIs (e.g. deployments, packages, etc.).
  • Setup integration of global and US labs with Tanium dev environment, including device configuration.
  • Create patterns, templates and samples to convert SCCM packages to Tanium packages .
  • Created the blueprint for global applications (eProduction, TDA extractor) to meet GCS and GTIO standards.
  • Created global task sequences to perform device health remediation for disk cleanup and time zone changes.
  • Create packages and custom scripts for software installations and uninstallations.
  • Configure and schedule one-time and ongoing deployments, scheduled tasks, filter groups, and maintenance windows. 
  • Build deployment rings using custom tags. 
  • Build dashboards on endpoint management platform.
  • Build ad hoc reports using custom scripts to interact with various APIs.
  • Providing incident management support for production issues.

Qualifications

  • Understanding of Servers (Microsoft Windows, Linux), Clients (Microsoft Windows, Linux) and Android / Apple systems
  • Experience with building systems from bare metal (OS installation, network configurations, domain join, software installation, etc.)
  • Experience with cloud solutions in one or more major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with using endpoint management and automation platforms such as Tanium, Intune, and Ansible
  • Experience with writing custom scripts using Python, PowerShell, etc.
  • Experience with OS images, deployments, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting
  • Understanding of IT Infrastructure / Platform and Cloud development, including:
    • Server, Edge, IOT Compute
    • Virtualization, Containerization
    • Container Management Systems
    • Event, Messaging Systems
    • Observability Systems (Performance, Telemetry)
    • HA Platform Designs
    • Cloud, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence Environments
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work
  • Passion for emerging technology and real-world applications
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills: able to present facts, thoughts, and ideas in a clear, concise manner to senior stakeholders.
  • Understand customer centricity, and develop products with that mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with infrastructure as Code, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
  • Experience with on-premise, Edge and Cloud platform design patterns and vendor platform capabilities; experience deploying Edge or Cloud tools and technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively influence and partner across product and platform teams within a global engineering organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and navigate to drive results within a globally distributed organization.
  • Experience building and managing infrastructure platforms that address global complexities, meet security standards, and support differences between markets/regions.
  • Experience with building dashboards and reporting
  • Experience with building CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with building automated device provisioning processes

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $84,051.00 - $105,064.00 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.

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.

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

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer. 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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