Platform Engineering & AI Operations Lead
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Oak Brook, IL, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, or senior software engineering
- Experience leading technical work across teams or mentoring engineers
- Strong production GCP experience
- Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience
- CI/CD ownership in production environments
- Strong Python or equivalent engineering/scripting ability
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, observability, and operational failure modes
- Security-first mindset around IAM, access control, secrets, production systems, and operational risk
- Hands-on experience using AI tools as part of engineering work
- Ability to build, maintain, evaluate, govern, or orchestrate agents that support engineering workflows
- Strong systems thinking and ownership mindset
Full description
Benefits:
- Warrants
- Annual bonus
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Platform Engineering & AI Operations Lead
**Full Time | Hybrid | Chicago Metro Area
Build the platform foundation for POWR:Suite and IG’s AI-assisted operating model
**Intelligent Generation’s mission is to empower businesses to engage the clean energy grid.
Intelligent Generation builds and operates POWR:Suite, a software platform that helps battery energy storage assets make highly profitable economic decisions.
POWR:Suite connects distributed energy assets to wholesale power markets while also optimizing behind-the-meter value: reducing utility bills, managing demand charges, improving asset performance, supporting resilience, and helping customers capture the full economic value of their energy assets.
Our work sits at the intersection of energy markets, grid operations, customer savings, software automation, telemetry, and AI-assisted decision-making.
We are looking for a platform engineering leader who can own the infrastructure foundation behind POWR:Suite and help IG scale an AI-assisted engineering and operating model.
This is a leadership role. You will be hands-on early, but the expectation is that you will grow into leading people, establishing platform standards, and orchestrating AI agents that improve engineering delivery, reliability, security, and operations.
**Why this role matters
**Battery assets are only valuable when they are operated intelligently. Every decision matters: when to charge, when to discharge, when to participate in the market, when to preserve state of charge, when to reduce customer demand charges, when to support resilience, and how to prove the economic value created.
The platform behind POWR:Suite must be reliable, observable, secure, automated, and ready to support both human operators and AI-assisted workflows.
You will help define that foundation.
What you will lead and own
Cloud platform and infrastructure
**Lead the architecture and operation of IG’s cloud platform on GCP, including Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Terraform, networking, observability, and deployment standards.
**CI/CD and engineering enablement
**Build and lead the practices that make engineering delivery faster, safer, and more repeatable. Own CI/CD, release automation, environment strategy, deployment quality, and platform guardrails.