Cloud Platform Engineer (100% Remote)

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to support a growing Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and AI/ML team within a large government multi-cloud environment supporting 50+ customer tenants. This person will work hands-on across both AWS GovCloud and Azure, supporting the cloud platforms used to host customer applications.

A major focus of the role will be supporting customer requests to host applications on these platforms and ensuring the underlying cloud environments are stable, scalable, and able to support the applications running on top of them. This will include hands-on work with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, and storage, as well as supporting the team’s Azure environment.

This person will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to support application needs, maintain and troubleshoot the cloud platforms, and contribute to ongoing cloud modernization efforts. Candidates need strong, hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure and should be comfortable working across both environments on a regular basis.

Responsibilities Include:

• Provide subject matter expertise using best practices for designing cloud-based and hybrid solutions. Consulting, designing, and implementation of complex cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud services, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Develop proofs of concept and MVPs of Azure and AWS services to solve current challenges.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture standards, best practices, and security guidelines for cloud adoption and migration.
• Provision, manage, and set up monitoring in Azure and AWS cloud services/systems to support
• Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments.
• Experience with deploying cloud serverless technologies and components such as Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS.
• Familiarity with Azure and AWS data storage such as Azure Blob storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Files, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS).
• Support design of secure cloud architecture, ensuring system components maintain strict compliance with ATO requirements and security frameworks (NIST/FedRAMP).
• Implement cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and data encryption
• Conduct risk assessments and audits to identify and address vulnerabilities in the cloud environment
• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of cloud solutions
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex issues, ensuring minimal impact to the organization and driving root cause analysis

Compensation: $55.00/hr to $61.00/hr.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Employees in this role will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package starting on day one of employment, including options for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Eligibility to enroll in the 401(k) retirement plan begins after 90 days of employment. Additionally, employees in this role will have access to paid sick leave and other paid time off benefits as required under the applicable law of the worksite location.

Skills and Requirements

• Ability to obtain a DHS EOD security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related cloud engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with both Microsoft Azure GovCloud and AWS GovCloud, including designing, implementing, and supporting cloud solutions
• Hands-on experience with AWS EC2, EKS, and storage services
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, including Azure Functions, Synapse, Data Factory, and Azure storage solutions
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for application and infrastructure deployments
• Experience provisioning, managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS
• Experience supporting secure cloud environments, including IAM, network security, encryption, and compliance requirements such as NIST and FedRAMP
• Experience supporting cloud platforms that host applications and ensuring the underlying environment remains stable and available
• Federal background/experience
• Prior experience supporting DHS
• Understanding of AI/ML operations and the development-to-field lifecycle.
• Experience of being part of an Agile team (Scrum, Kanban)
• Hands-on knowledge and experience with Atlassian's Jira and Confluence.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].