Principal Infrastructure Architect - Cloud & SaaS Platforms

10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering and architecture, with a proven track record of managing large-scale cloud deployments in AWS (primary), GCP, or Azure.

-Deep, hands-on mastery of Kubernetes and EKS, including experience with custom controllers, operators, and migrating stateful/stateless workloads from VMs to containers.

-Strong experience architecting infrastructure for high-scale data systems, specifically real-time stores (Aerospike, Redis) and analytics engines (Druid, ClickHouse).

-Extensive experience designing secure infrastructure, including implementation of Zero Trust networks, WAFs, and secret management systems. Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC2, PCI-DSS) is a plus.

-Proven ability to build observability pipelines from scratch using OpenTelemetry collectors and backend visualization tools (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog).

-Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash. You automate toil relentlessly and have deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).

-Deep understanding of cloud networking (VPC, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect) and protocols (gRPC, HTTP/2, WebSocket, QUIC).

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Architect - Cloud & SaaS Platforms to sit hybrid at a Cybersecurity client in Newport Beach, San Jose, or Frisco Texas. This person bring a deep background in large-scale multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern SaaS delivery. This is a unique opportunity to lead the architectural evolution of their platform, driving a critical migration from legacy EC2 topologies to cloud-native EKS/Kubernetes clusters, and designing the backbone for our next-generation AI and real-time data services. (This role can pay $220,000-245,000 based on years of experience).