Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

Insight Global; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Vancouver is seeking a Platform Engineer, Network Operations, to design and build internal developer platforms and core infrastructure. You will architect Kubernetes platforms, implement IaC, and deliver self‑service capabilities for engineering teams to provision infrastructure safely.

You will also build observability platforms, run DR tests, and lead incident response, collaborating with application teams and mentoring junior engineers on platform engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4–8 years designing platform solutions, implementing infrastructure as code, and building scalable distributed systems, or equivalent.
• Proven experience designing and implementing complex platform solutions with self-service capabilities; lead design discussions on platform automation approaches with trade-offs.
• Experience supporting enterprise Network Operations environments across retail, DCs, offices, data centers, cloud environments, and remote connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with network tech such as Cisco SD-WAN, Meraki, Aviatrix, Juniper, Zscaler, routing/switching, firewalls, VPN, cloud networking.
• Familiar with SolarWinds, Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, ServiceNow; ITSM platforms; observability dashboards; scripting (Python/PowerShell); IaC tools; config management; packet capture.

Responsibilities

• Engineer Kubernetes platforms and container orchestration including cluster architecture, pod networking, and service mesh.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and delivery tooling to standardize build, test, release workflows and artifact management.
• Create self-service platforms including APIs, templates, and portals for provisioning infrastructure safely.
• Build observability platforms including logging infrastructure, metrics pipelines, distributed tracing, alerting platforms, and dashboards.
• Lead incident response for platform issues including root cause analysis, mitigation, and implementing preventive measures.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as code

Distributed systems design

Self-service platforms

CI/CD tooling

Observability platforms

Kubernetes

Networking fundamentals

Python/PowerShell scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco Meraki

Aviatrix

Juniper

Zscaler

SolarWinds

Splunk

Datadog

PagerDuty

ServiceNow

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Insight Global in Vancouver is seeking a Platform Engineer, Network Operations, to design and build internal developer platforms and core infrastructure. You will architect Kubernetes platforms, implement IaC, and deliver self‑service capabilities for engineering teams to provision infrastructure safely.

You will also build observability platforms, run DR tests, and lead incident response, collaborating with application teams and mentoring junior engineers on platform engineering practices.