Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Multi-Cloud Infra & GitOps

Insight Global; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a hands-on Kubernetes Platform Engineer to help build and operate Ecolab’s new enterprise container platform across Azure and AWS. You’ll provision and run production clusters, write IaC, build GitOps CI/CD pipelines, and automate day-to-day operations.

A big early focus is standing up Azure AKS from the live AWS EKS model and moving developer-run deployments onto governed pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering with hands-on production Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with AKS and/or EKS.
• Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD and GitOps pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Kubernetes networking, including pod-IP allocation (Cilium or similar CNI a plus).
• Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go).
• Working knowledge of CIS hardening.
• Comfortable across more than one cloud and/or hybrid; solid Linux, containers (Docker/containerd), and networking fundamentals.
• Cilium / eBPF depth
• Argo Rollouts / progressive delivery; Kustomize
• Envoy Gateway / Kubernetes Gateway API, workload identity, and Crossplane self-service infra
• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd); policy-as-code and image scanning
• Observability (Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• CKA/CKAD; Azure/AWS certs; Terraform Associate

Responsibilities

• Build & operate clusters: Provision, upgrade, and run production AKS/EKS clusters — networking, storage, ingress, autoscaling, observability.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain platform IaC with Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Build and improve pipelines in Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (with Kustomize) for the platform and its app teams.
• Networking: Implement cluster networking and IP allocation at scale (Cilium CNI).
• Automation: Automate cluster lifecycle, patching, cert rotation, scaling, and backups; enable self‑service infra (e.g., Crossplane).
• Security: Harden clusters to CIS Benchmarks and remediate Mythos vulnerability findings with security.
• Reliability: Join the on‑call rotation, troubleshoot production issues, and support app teams with golden paths and docs.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Automation

Observability

Security compliance

Networking

SRE practices

Multi-cloud

Tools

AKS

EKS

Terraform

Helm

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Flux

Kustomize

Cilium

Crossplane

Envoy Gateway

Istio

Linkerd

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Docker

containerd

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Go

CIS hardening

CKA/CKAD

Terraform Associate

Azure/AWS certs

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a hands-on Kubernetes Platform Engineer to help build and operate Ecolab’s new enterprise container platform across Azure and AWS. You’ll provision and run production clusters, write IaC, build GitOps CI/CD pipelines, and automate day-to-day operations.

A big early focus is standing up Azure AKS from the live AWS EKS model and moving developer-run deployments onto governed pipelines.