Sr Platform Architect (GCP)

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Date: Jul 29, 2025

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 outstanding 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 DevSecOps Architect role is part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Operations team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. The role collaborates with the Director of Enterprise DevSecOps Platform and is responsible for supporting, migrating, automation and optimization of software development and deployment process, and maturing the Enterprise DevSecOps program. The Cloud DevSecOps Engineer will work closely with software developers, operations engineers, and other team members to ensure that the software delivery process is efficient, secure, and scalable. You will support the Corporate, Digital, Data, Restaurant, and Market application and product teams by efficiently and effectively delivering DevOps standards and services.

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

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Leadership & Architecture

  • Lead the management, architectural design, and solutioning of Developer Experience, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes across large-scale technology environments.
  • Drive proof-of-concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies to align DevOps strategies with evolving business needs.
  • Provide strategic direction to internal teams and external vendors on DevSecOps tool standardization and engineering support.

2. Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

  • Lead the automation of cloud environment provisioning using pipeline engineering principles and tools such as Terraform, Helm, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
  • Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates for the automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and application code.
  • Design and support high-quality pipeline automation workflows across hybrid and cloud-native platforms, with a strong emphasis on GCP-based architectures and migration strategies.

3. GCP Migration & Optimization

  • Architect and oversee the migration of workloads and services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
  • Collaborate with platform and security teams to align GCP implementations with enterprise standards and compliance requirements.
  • Continuously evaluate and optimize GCP services to support evolving business and technical needs.

4. Pipeline Engineering & DevSecOps Enablement

  • Automate and monitor the software development and deployment lifecycle to ensure reliability, speed, and security.
  • Collaborate with software developers and operations engineers to continuously improve delivery pipelines and reduce friction.
  • Keep up with the latest DevSecOps practices and technologies to support continuous improvement and innovation.

5. Mentorship & Team Development

  • Mentor and coach senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Encourage consistent architecture design alignment throughout various teams and areas.
  • Identify and develop future technical leaders within the organization.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or relevant experience.
  • 10+ years of Information Technology experience for a large technology company, preferably in a platform team.
  • 8+ years hands-on Cloud DevOps pipeline for automating, building, and deploying microservice applications, APIs, and non-container artifacts.
  • 5+ years working with Cloud technologies with good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS & GCP, GitHub, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Harness and Artifactory or similar DevOps CI/CD tools.
  • Experience with observability tools like Datadog, New Relic and open source (O11y) observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
  • Advanced knowledge of "AWS" Platform preferably 3+ years AWS/Kubernetes experience or container-based technology.
  • Experience working on Code Quality SAST and DAST tools like SonarQube/Sonar Cloud, Veracode, Checkmarx, and Snyk, developing scripts or automating tasks using languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $190,310- $231,250 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, 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. 

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan. 

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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