Principal Engineer - Automation Platform Developer

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to support a nationwide network serving millions of customers by implementing approved architectures and designs. This Principal Engineer will lead the architecture, engineering, and strategic evolution of a Hadoop-based data platform, driving scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence. Success in this role requires strong Hadoop expertise, architectural leadership, collaboration across teams, and mentorship of engineers., Owns the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of enterprise Hadoop clusters and supporting data platform services.

• Leads administration of Hadoop ecosystem components such as HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark, Kafka, Oozie, ZooKeeper, Impala, and related tooling.
• Defines platform standards for availability, performance, capacity planning, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring, and security.
• Drives infrastructure optimization across storage, compute, workload management, and job scheduling.
• Establishes best practices for cluster provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data ingestion, processing, governance, and access patterns.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, performance, and production stability issues across distributed systems.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to improve resiliency and service quality.
• Evaluate and guide migration or coexistence strategies involving cloud data platforms and hybrid architectures.
• Mentor engineers and administrators, providing technical leadership across platform operations and engineering initiatives.
• Create and maintain platform documentation, operational runbooks, and architecture standards.
• Create and maintain data views, data exports and automated data processing.

This position will be hybrid 4 days a week onsite in Greenwood Village, CO. The pay rate for this position is between $50-52/hr. Insurance benefits, and a 401k is offered during the contract period through Insight Global. If you are interested, please apply today!

Masters or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field or related work experience

• 5-10 years of engineering work experience
• 5-10 years of project management work experience
• Basic knowledge of related industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols
• Basic knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
• Basic knowledge in TCP/IP and the OSI Model
• Basic knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
• Basic knowledge of network devices and basic network appliances
• Basic knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
• Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
• Ability to use personal computer and software applications

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Four years of software development experience using Python / Typescript
• Experience with Django/Flask/FastAPI
• Experience with Shell scripting, TCP/IP and networking concepts, system security best practices and system monitoring
• Capable of managing systems in a large scale, high availability, multi-site environment
• Experience working in DevOps practices and tools
• Experience with Hadoop and other database technologies, like Postgresql/MySQL, Splunk
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Other Industry and vendor specific certifications, training (Python, DevOps, Network Technologies)
• Advanced knowledge of network automation platforms and techniques
• Advanced knowledge of concurrent, parallel and asynchronous programming design and techniques
• Advanced knowledge of restful api design, operation and interaction
• Working knowledge of PEP8 programming practices
• Ability to read, understand and effectively convey RFC and IEEE standards and concepts

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.