Software/ 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.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & DevOps Engineering

Perform platform administration and DevOps-related activities, including:

OS and middleware patching and maintenance

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:

Provisioning, upgrading, and optimizing cloud infrastructure

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:

Batch processing applications using the Spring Framework

Node.js services, including AWS Lambda-based builds

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

Pay Rate: $65-75.00/hr

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Skills and Requirements

Solid development background with experience in:

Java

Node.js

Python

Scripting (Bash, Python, or similar)

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)