Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, IT - Remote
Company: Heartland Dental
Location: Chicago, IL 60601 (Remote)
Salary: $115,000 - $135,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-06-02
About this role
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, IT
Are you a technology professional seeking a challenging career working for a market leader in a rapidly growing industry? Heartland Dental is seeking an experienced and adaptable Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP) to join our Technology Transformation organization. This role focuses on designing, building, securing, and operating a cloud-native platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enabling application teams to deploy and scale services through modern, automated, and reliable infrastructure. In this role, you will partner closely with application developers, architects, and operations teams to enable cloud-native delivery, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code–driven provisioning. You will play a critical role in shaping and evolving a secure, scalable platform that empowers teams to deliver high-quality services with speed and confidence.
Heartland Dental is the nation's largest dental support organization, providing non-clinical administrative support services to more than 3,000 supported doctors across 39 states and the District of Columbia in 1,900+ dental offices. Each Heartland Dental supported office is unique to the community and the patients they serve. Supported doctors are the clinical leaders of their practice, retain full clinical autonomy, and establish their own care philosophies. All Heartland Dental supported doctors are united by a common goal: delivering the highest quality dental care and patient experiences.
To give you an idea of the team structure, you will report to the platform owner, partnering with application, networking and InfoSec team members supporting cloud systems and applications as part of an expanding Technology Transformation organization.
Below is an overview of the duties and responsibilities you would take on in this role:
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
- Provision and manage Cloud Run services and Cloud SQL inst...