Platform Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and support a secure, scalable cloud platform as part of a large-scale migration from on‑premise systems to AWS. This role focuses on delivering core infrastructure, automation, and self-service capabilities while enabling application teams through modern cloud-native patterns. You will collaborate across architecture, DevSecOps, networking, and security teams to ensure compliance with CJIS, COV, and FBI standards. This is a 12-month contract engagement to start with the potential for extensions based on performance, and will start out fully onsite, with hybrid flexibility down the road. We can provide a starting hourly rate between $45-$55/hr depending on previous experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and operate core AWS infrastructure (VPCs, Transit Gateway, IAM, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Design secure, scalable networking, compute, and storage aligned to cloud landing zones
• Deploy and manage container platforms (ECS Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Develop platform services (API gateways, service mesh, logging, monitoring)
• Support migration of legacy workloads (VMware, Windows, Linux, middleware) to AWS
• Implement encryption, secrets management, and secure service communication
• Build and maintain IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
• Create reusable modules, templates, and self-service provisioning tools
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, drift detection, and remediation
• Establish observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and incident response workflows
• Support SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, and reliability improvements
• Apply automation and AI-driven insights to enhance operations and performance

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and operating AWS infrastructure
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
• Experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with infrastructure automation and provisioning
• Knowledge of hybrid networking (VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Understanding of security controls, secrets management, and compliance frameworks (CJIS, COV, etc.)
• Experience supporting application teams via platform or self-service tooling

Preferred Skills

• Broad AWS services experience including networking, security, and monitoring tools
• Experience migrating legacy middleware to containers or AWS services
• Familiarity with service mesh, API gateways, or event-driven architectures
• Experience with AWS Service Catalog, AFT, or similar automation tools
• Knowledge of VMware-to-AWS migration patterns
• Background in SRE, platform ops, or reliability engineering
• Relevant certifications (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Security+)