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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Python Developer - Cloud Platform Engineering - **Company:** Insight Global - **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $112,320.0 - $141,440.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Audit Trail, Unit Testing, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Code Coverage, Encodings, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Desktop Publishing, Django Web Framework, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Control, Network Segmentation, Role-Based Access Control, Kusto Query Language, Zero Trust Network Access, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Web Application Frameworks, Openapi, Azure Service Bus, Datadog, Data Logging, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Azure Data Factory, Flask (Web Framework), Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Grafana, Backend, Cloudformation, Fastapi, Microsoft Fabric, Pytest, AI Platforms, Integration Tests, Bicep, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Api Management, Docker, Key Vault - **Published:** July 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.insightglobal.com/jobs/find_a_job/texas/dallas/sr-python-developer-cloud-platform-engineering/job-551518/ ## About the Role 5-10 years of professional software development experience, with the majority in Python. -Strong experience with a modern async Python web framework. FastAPI strongly preferred; Flask/Django acceptable with a willingness to ramp quickly on FastAPI and async patterns. -Hands-on production experience with a major public cloud. Azure strongly preferred given our stack; strong AWS/GCP candidates can transfer but should expect an Azure ramp-up. -Practical experience with containerized services (Docker) and orchestration on a managed platform (Azure Container Apps, AKS, ECS, Cloud Run, or similar). -Solid grounding in cloud security fundamentals: identity and access management (RBAC, managed identities / service principals), secrets management (Key Vault or equivalent), network segmentation (VNets, private endpoints / Private Link), and the principle of least privilege. -Experience with message/event systems (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar) for asynchronous, decoupled service communication. -Comfortable working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, Terraform, or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines. -Strong API design skills (REST, OpenAPI / schema-first contracts) and experience maintaining backward-compatible, versioned APIs across service boundaries. -Testing discipline: unit and integration testing with pytest or equivalent, and comfort owning test coverage for critical paths. -Clear written and verbal communication - this role documents tradeoffs and coordinates across service boundaries owned by different teams. Nice to Have Skills & Experience -Experience with Azure AI Search, vector/hybrid search, or embedding pipelines. -Experience with Azure OpenAI or other LLM/agent-oriented systems - tool-calling, RAG, evaluation harnesses. This platform is building toward an agent execution engine, and prior exposure shortens the ramp considerably. -Experience in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments: data governance, audit logging, PII / sensitive-data handling, and audit-before-action patterns. -Familiarity with observability tooling: KQL, Azure Monitor / Application Insights, Grafana, OpenTelemetry. -Experience designing systems with explicit trust boundaries - for example, a control plane vs. data plane split, zero-trust patterns, or service-to-service authentication. -Exposure to data engineering pipelines: Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Event Hubs ingestion, batch and streaming. ## Description Insight Global is seeking a Senior Python Developer to build the backend services that power the client's enterprise AI platform. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role on the Platform Engineering team. The AI platform is organized around a small set of platform planes - an AI Control Plane that acts as the single enforcement point for identity, policy, and routing; a Data Plane of governed retrieval and query services; an Observability Plane; and a Developer Plane. Every AI request in the enterprise flows through this platform. You will design and ship the Python services that make that possible: gateway and policy enforcement components, retrieval and orchestration services, event-driven integration between planes, and the audit and telemetry surfaces that make the platform trustworthy in a compliance-sensitive environment. This is a builder role. This resource will own services end to end - API contracts, implementation, tests, deployment pipelines, and production operation on Azure - and will work across service boundaries owned by other teams, which means clear written communication and disciplined, versioned interfaces are part of the job, not an afterthought. What this role will build and own: -Design, build, and operate production Python services (FastAPI/async) across the platform's Control Plane, Data Plane, and Observability Plane - including gateway integration, policy enforcement, retrieval APIs, and service-to-service orchestration. -Implement and maintain governed API contracts (REST, OpenAPI/schema-first) at plane boundaries, with backward-compatible versioning so downstream clients and other teams can build against stable interfaces. -Build event-driven integration between platform components using Azure messaging services (Event Hubs, Service Bus) for async, decoupled communication. -Contribute to the platform's agent execution capabilities - tool-calling services, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and the evaluation harnesses that gate AI features before production. -Enforce the platform's security model in code: managed identities and least-privilege RBAC, Key Vault-backed secrets, private endpoints and network segmentation, and metadata-only logging with no raw payload or PII leakage. -Own deployment and operations for your services: Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep/Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployment on Azure Container Apps / AKS, and observability instrumentation (Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, KQL). -Own test coverage for critical paths - unit and integration tests (pytest) are a condition of done, not a follow-up task. -Document design tradeoffs and coordinate across service boundaries owned by other teams (data engineering, identity, application teams) in writing. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [pytest: Simple, rapid and fun testing with Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/213-pytest-simple-rapid-and-fun-testing-with-python) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Back(end) to the Future: Embracing the continuous Evolution of Infrastructure and Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/440-back-end-to-the-future-embracing-the-continuous-evolution-of-infrastructure-and-code) - [Automagic Configuration in Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/363-automagic-configuration-in-python) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [The 13 Best Python Libraries for Developers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/371-the-13-best-python-libraries-for-developers-in-2025)