Orlando, 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 Orlando.
What We Place
Representative roles
Platforms and technologies
Our Approach
This editorial hiring guide starts with sourced Orlando business context. The City of Orlando market report separates modeling, simulation and training, digital media, life sciences, health care, technology, and aerospace. Hiring teams can use those fields to distinguish interactive products, regulated records, and engineered systems. 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 Orlando 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
Give candidates the integration, approval, audit, and change-management boundaries during the interview. Ask for comparable decisions from prior work. This is planning guidance, not measured local demand.
Editorial industry scenario
A cross-industry brief should start with the systems, users, risks, and outcomes behind the job title. 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
13,440
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 9.520 jobs per one thousand across the metro workforce.
Employment concentration
0.88 location quotient
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits near the national employment concentration for this proxy occupation. Use role evidence and work-model requirements to set the sourcing radius.
Annual wage reference
$80,170 to $176,800
The metro median is 5% below the national Software Developers median. Do not use the gap to discount niche platform or domain experience. BLS reports a $129,620 median for the proxy occupation in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, 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 Orlando demand, clients, or candidate supply.
Sourced modeling, simulation, and digital media context
The City of Orlando 2023 to 2024 market report identifies digital media and modeling, simulation, and training among the city's key industries. 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. Simulation and media products can combine real-time software, three-dimensional assets, scenario data, hardware interfaces, learning records, release pipelines, and performance targets.
Evidence to request: Review a platform architecture with tenancy, identity, network, secret, and observability decisions tied to user needs. Set the user and training goal, scenario model, asset pipeline, device interfaces, latency target, test method, release path, and product owner.
Sourced life sciences and health care context
Orlando's market report names life sciences as a key industry and describes health care as a sector with significant growth. Define the developer workflow that needs improvement. Candidates should show how they measured build, deploy, provisioning, or incident steps before choosing a platform change. Life-sciences and care systems may join experiments, clinical records, laboratories, devices, protected data, enterprise processes, billing, validation, and uptime duties.
Evidence to request: Ask for a before-and-after developer workflow with measured steps, adoption evidence, and support cost. Define the research, medical, care, or administrative process, regulated boundary, source record, access rules, validation method, integration owner, and acceptance evidence.
Sourced technology and aerospace context
The same City of Orlando report describes technology and aerospace as significant parts of the city's economic diversification. State the reliability boundary between the platform team and application teams. Include upgrades, capacity, backups, incident routing, and deprecation in the role scope. Aerospace and technology programs can cross engineering baselines, software, components, suppliers, test evidence, maintenance, restricted data, releases, and long product lifecycles.
Evidence to request: Use an upgrade or outage scenario and require a maintenance plan, communication path, rollback, and ownership matrix. Name the product and program boundary, configuration authority, data classification, test environment, supplier handoff, release evidence, support model, and change owner.
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 the platform boundary, deployment process, service measures, security controls, and incident ownership. The cross-industry technical work context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Orlando.
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 the platform boundary, deployment process, service measures, security controls, and incident ownership. The cross-industry technical work context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Orlando.
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 the platform boundary, deployment process, service measures, security controls, and incident ownership. The cross-industry technical work context is an editorial scenario, not a measured claim about Orlando.
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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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