Sr. Platform Engineer at ManpowerGroup
Denver, CO
$95/hrfrom the description
Jul 9, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within an infrastructure support team, focused on building and maintaining a Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Day-to-day work spans designing platform capabilities, managing networking components (ingress, DNS, certificates, firewalls), hardening security and resilience, and keeping architecture documentation current. It suits engineers with hands-on Kubernetes experience across multi-cloud environments and familiarity with tools like Terraform, Argo CD, and Prometheus.
Senior level · 3+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 160–280
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This role is posted through ManpowerGroup/Experis and is clearly a staffing/contract engagement — the benefits section references 'consultants' and a 'waiting period', confirming a W2 contract arrangement.
The $95/hour pay rate is stated as a single point ('based on experience'), so min and max are both set to 95.
The 3–5 year experience range is stated against Kubernetes environments specifically; the overall years minimum is set to 3 (the lower bound).
AWS, GCP, and Azure are all explicitly required together ('deep understanding of cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure'); they are listed as separate skills since the JD treats them as a combined requirement rather than interchangeable alternatives. AWS is also noted with GCP and Azure as alternatives to reflect the 'across' framing.
Kubernetes tooling (Kyverno, Karpenter, Argo CD, Prometheus) is introduced with 'such as … and others', indicating these are illustrative examples rather than hard gates — marked as preferred accordingly.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships platform capabilities on Kubernetes (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but has a strong infrastructure operations and networking flavor that could also support 15-1244.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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