Miami, FL
Platform engineers who build the infrastructure AI runs on. Crosscheck recruits AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering candidates for contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent roles tied to Miami.
What We Place
Representative roles
Platforms and technologies
Our Approach
This editorial hiring guide starts with sourced Miami business context. Miami-Dade County materials identify international trade, aviation, financial services, information technology, and life sciences as separate economic-development targets. Hiring briefs need to distinguish border-spanning operations from regulated business systems and research work. A Platform Engineer brief should identify the internal users, supported workloads, infrastructure boundary, and service promise. Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code keywords do not show whether a candidate can reduce delivery friction while preserving reliability and security.
Source platform engineers with experience at AI-native and cloud-first companies
Vet on IDP design, Kubernetes, GitOps, and developer experience tooling
Deliver shortlists within the agreed search timeline, candidates ready to interview
Permanent placements include a 90-day replacement guarantee, subject to the signed agreement.
Start the search
Include the business context, systems, delivery phase, work model, compensation, and interview timeline. A Crosscheck search lead will use that context to calibrate the role before sourcing begins.
Local Market Brief
List the paved paths the platform must provide, such as service templates, environments, secrets, observability, or deployment controls. Set adoption, uptime, support, and change-ownership expectations for the team that will use them. The three sourced Miami contexts below turn that scope into intake and screening decisions. They do not measure current vacancies, candidate supply, or Crosscheck client activity.
Editorial market scenario
List the production decisions the hire must own. Use those decisions to assess candidates whose prior title or industry differs from the opening. This is planning guidance, not measured local demand.
Editorial industry scenario
A finance-facing brief should identify the transaction, reporting, audit, privacy, and availability requirements attached to the role. Confirm that this context applies to the employer before using it in the search.
Screening focus
Candidates are assessed on automation, observability, security, incident response, and the operating scale they have supported.
Published labor benchmark
BLS does not publish an occupation matching Platform Engineer. Crosscheck uses Software Developers (15-1252) as the closest published broad benchmark; it is not a count or pay estimate for this exact specialty.
BLS OEWS May 2025, published May 15, 2026
Published metro employment
18,900
BLS publishes a sizable metro employment estimate for the proxy occupation. The intake still needs to isolate the platform, delivery stage, and ownership required here. The estimate equals 6.701 jobs per one thousand across the metro workforce.
Employment concentration
0.62 location quotient
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL reports a below-national employment concentration for this proxy occupation. Decide which requirements justify a wider regional or remote search.
Annual wage reference
$80,440 to $199,280
The metro median sits within five percent of the national Software Developers median. Validate the budget against seniority, scope, and current salary data. BLS reports a $132,650 median for the proxy occupation in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL.
Hiring brief scenarios
These scenarios connect location context to role responsibilities. Use them as prompts to verify with the employer, not as measures of Miami demand, clients, or candidate supply.
Sourced international trade and logistics context
Miami-Dade County describes international trade as a central part of the local economy and ties that work to PortMiami, Miami International Airport, and the region's trade and logistics organizations. Map the local operating context to platform isolation and access. Ask how the engineer would separate teams, data classes, and environments while keeping common services supportable. Trade systems can cross carriers, ports, customs, warehouses, customers, currencies, and time zones while goods and financial records move on different schedules.
Evidence to request: Review a platform architecture with tenancy, identity, network, secret, and observability decisions tied to user needs. Trace one shipment or trade transaction through partner interfaces, status events, exceptions, financial postings, reconciliation, retention, and support ownership.
Sourced aviation and aerospace context
Miami-Dade lists aviation and aerospace among the industries sought through its Targeted Jobs Incentive Fund and identifies airport areas among its strategic locations. Define the developer workflow that needs improvement. Candidates should show how they measured build, deploy, provisioning, or incident steps before choosing a platform change. Aviation work may join maintenance, assets, schedules, passengers, cargo, safety controls, secure access, vendors, and finance systems that must stay available during extended operating hours.
Evidence to request: Ask for a before-and-after developer workflow with measured steps, adoption evidence, and support cost. Identify the flight, cargo, maintenance, airport, or manufacturing boundary, then document uptime, access, audit, interface, and recovery requirements.
Sourced finance, technology, and life sciences context
The same Miami-Dade incentive program names financial and professional services, information technology, and life sciences among the industries the county seeks to support. State the reliability boundary between the platform team and application teams. Include upgrades, capacity, backups, incident routing, and deprecation in the role scope. These sectors can require transaction controls, protected records, validated calculations, model oversight, research traceability, or access reviews, depending on the system and business process.
Evidence to request: Use an upgrade or outage scenario and require a maintenance plan, communication path, rollback, and ownership matrix. Name the sector, record type, regulated boundary, system of record, control owner, change authority, and evidence required for acceptance.
Interview scorecard
Ask each candidate the same core questions. Score the evidence, ownership, and judgment in the answer instead of relying on job-title or keyword matches.
1. Platform Engineer: Kubernetes
Choose a Kubernetes decision from your work as Platform Engineer. Which constraint changed the design, and what evidence supported the result?
Use the answer to assess change controls, secrets, observability, recovery targets, and service availability. The finance and insurance systems context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Miami.
2. Senior Platform Engineer: Helm
Describe project work you completed as Senior Platform Engineer involving Helm that did not follow the original plan. What did you own, and how did you correct it?
Use the answer to assess deployment safety, service measures, observability, incident response, and platform self-service. The product and software delivery context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Miami.
3. Staff Platform Engineer: ArgoCD
For an ArgoCD system you supported, explain the handoff, operating limits, and measures used after launch. Where did your responsibility begin and end?
Use the answer to assess change controls, secrets, observability, recovery targets, and service availability. The finance and insurance systems context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Miami.
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FAQ
For qualified exclusive searches in our core disciplines, Crosscheck targets a first candidate slate within 48 hours after a completed intake. Contract placements include a 40-billable-hour replacement guarantee, and permanent placements include a 90-day replacement guarantee, subject to the signed agreement.
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