Platform Engineer

Insight Global is looking for a Platform Engineer with a strong development background and hands-on experience to help design, build, and operate scalable, reliable platforms. This role blends cloud infrastructure management, automation, and software development, with a focus on modernizing systems and enabling engineering teams through shared platforms and tooling. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across AWS, CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and application development, and enjoys building reusable libraries and automation frameworks., Platform & DevOps Engineering

• Perform platform administration and DevOps-related activities, including:

o OS and middleware patching and maintenance

o Monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization

• Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, going beyond basic pipeline implementations

• Implement automation for operational tasks and platform workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Manage and maintain AWS cloud resources, including:

o Provisioning, upgrading, and optimizing cloud infrastructure

o Supporting cost, performance, and scalability best practices

• Lead and support the migration of applications from EC2-based deployments to containerized Kubernetes environments

• Collaborate on cloud architecture decisions and platform standards

Application Modernization & Development

• Contribute to the development of common libraries and shared services used across engineering teams

• Support and enhance:

o Batch processing applications using the Spring Framework

o Node.js services, including AWS Lambda-based builds

o ReactJS-based front-end components, including open-source packages

• Apply best practices in application design, testing, and maintainability

Automation & Scripting

• Build and maintain automation tools using Python, leveraging frameworks such as FastAPI

• Develop scripts and utilities to improve deployment speed, reliability, and developer productivity

Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering

• Solid development background with experience in:

o Java, Node.js, or Python

• Hands-on experience managing AWS cloud environments

• Experience working with CI/CD tools, especially Jenkins

• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes

• Experience with Linux-based systems, middleware, and patching processes

• Ability to bridge development and operations through automation and shared tooling - Experience migrating legacy or VM-based applications to container platforms

• Exposure to microservices architecture

• Knowledge of AWS Lambda and serverless architectures

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)