About this role
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. As the global leader in the foodservice industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us.
From drive-thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. 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 a positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community, and family. From the 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 the planet. We also offer outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance, and flexible work arrangements.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. We are interested in people who enhance our company culture: Does this role interest you? We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement!
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 Platform Engineer III role is part of the Edge ecosystem team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. The role collaborates with the Director, Edge Platform Engineering and will play a significant role in building and maintaining the Edge computing platform that powers our global restaurant technology ecosystem. You will work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to develop, implement, and support scalable, secure, and resilient Edge platform solutions. You will support the Digital, Data, Engineering, and Restaurant development teams by delivering a scalable, resilient, and secure platform pipelines and capabilities.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft the transformation of infrastructure and operations products and services to the entire McDonalds environment.
Duties
- Design, develop, release and maintain edge platforms and infrastructure.
- Collaborate with platform architects, engineers and suppliers to implement scalable and modular, fault tolerant edge platform deployments.
- Optimize edge platform and underlying infrastructure for performance, reliability, and security
- Implement strategies for failover, disaster recovery, and zero-touch provisioning at the edge.
- Partner on hardware sizing and provisioning of system resources for edge workloads.
- Implement and manage virtualization and/or containerized environments for edge deployments
- Implement and manage data replication, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for edge environments.
- Design, build and implement orchestration framework for managing VM based and containerized workloads across edge clusters.
- Integrate Edge platform tools with GCP for hybrid workload deployments.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code templates for edge environments.
- Build reusable automation frameworks to streamline deployment and configuration.
- Enable self-service adoption of edge platform standards across cross-functional teams.
- Evaluate emerging edge technologies, conduct PoCs, and drive technical feasibility studies.
- Stay ahead of on advancements in edge computing, distributed systems, and observability.
- Maintain documentation for edge platform designs, configurations and deployment processes
- Participate in platform reviews and supply to continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years in platform engineering or similar field, with 3+ years focused on edge computing or on-prem cloud.
- 5+ years working with Cloud technologies with good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in GCP & AWS.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration in edge or cloud environments
- Familiarity with edge hardware infrastructure (servers, IoT devices) and performance tuning.
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V) and hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Knowledge of software-defined storage systems (e.g., Ceph, Robin.io) and strategies for data replication, backup, and disaster recovery in edge environments.
- Proficiency in programming languages: Go, Python, Rust, PowerShell.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).
- Solid understanding of networking protocols, security standards, and system performance tuning.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and hybrid edge-cloud architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm) as supporting skills.
- Familiarity with real-time data frameworks (Apache Kafka, Flink).
- Professional certifications in GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Compensation
Bonus Eligible: YES
Long - Term Incentive: YES
Benefits Eligible: YES
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $0.00 - $0.00 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.
Competencies
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.
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 [email protected]. 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.
Other facts
About McDonald's Corporation
McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries. More than 90% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women.
McDonald's & our franchisees employ 1.9 million people worldwide.
We serve the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous Fries, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Chicken McNuggets and Egg McMuffin.
To learn more about the company, please visit www.aboutmcdonalds.com.
What you'll do
- The Platform Engineer III will design, develop, and maintain edge platforms and infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams. They will implement scalable and secure solutions to support the global restaurant technology ecosystem.
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