DevOps Engineer

Insight Global; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an on-site Senior Platform Engineer in Bethesda, MD to own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms (Azure AKS, Google GKE) and build an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage. You will engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and orchestrate batch workflows with Argo Workflows.

Responsibilities include designing secure cluster topologies, RBAC, and policies; managing stateful services; establishing observability with Prometheus and Grafana; and driving

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• CKA certification
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with multiple tools
• Experience with multi-cloud Kubernetes (Azure AKS, Google Cloud GKE)
• Argo Workflow experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE—design cluster topology, networking, RBAC, and policies for secure, scalable, cost-efficient operation.
• Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform with Backstage—service catalog, golden-path templates, scorecards, and self-service scaffolding to standardize app onboarding.
• Engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions—pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and artifact provenance.
• Orchestrate batch/data workflows with Argo Workflows (not CI/CD)—multi-tenant DAGs, resource quotas, artifact/versioning strategy, and guardrails.
• Operate and tune stateful services—Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres), Couchbase, Elasticsearch—including capacity planning, replication, backup/restore, and DR.
• Establish end-to-end observability—Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Grafana Tempo tracing, SLOs/error budgets, actionable alerting, and on-call runbooks.
• Build platform tooling & automation in Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET—CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations that improve developer experience.
• Drive security, compliance, and reliability practices—image/signing & SBOMs, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.

Skills

CI/CD experience

Kubernetes administration

Education

CKA Certification

Tools

Argo Workflow

Azure AKS

Google Cloud GKE

Backstage

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

On-Site Bethesda, MD | Permanent Placement | 130-150k Base Salary

Required Skills & Experience

• 5-8 years preferred
• Someone with a CKA
• If someone is a rockstar but has experience with another CICD they might do it but someone that has built pipelines and several of them
• Argo Workflow – plus

Job Description

• Own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE—design cluster topology, networking, RBAC, and policies for secure, scalable, cost-efficient operation.
• Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform with Backstage—service catalog, golden-path templates, scorecards, and self-service scaffolding to standardize app onboarding.
• Engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions—pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and artifact provenance.
• Orchestrate batch/data workflows with Argo Workflows (not CI/CD)—multi-tenant DAGs, resource quotas, artifact/versioning strategy, and guardrails.
• Operate and tune stateful services—Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres), Couchbase, Elasticsearch—including capacity planning, replication, backup/restore, and DR.
• Establish end-to-end observability—Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Grafana Tempo tracing, SLOs/error budgets, actionable alerting, and on-call runbooks.
• Build platform tooling & automation in Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET—CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations that improve developer experience.
• Drive security, compliance, and reliability practices—image/signing & SBOMs, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.