Lead Platform Engineer

Insight Global; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join our Cleveland, OH team. You will set strategic priorities for platform maintenance across cloud and on‑prem environments and guide security, reliability, and performance initiatives.

You'll collaborate with cross‑functional partners to implement best practices, oversee automation and IaC, and drive DevOps efforts to ensure scalable, secure infrastructure for the company's services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or 9+ years in Platform Engineer roles.
• 6+ years platform engineering with Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher.
• Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience.
• Monitoring/log tools: Nagios, Splunk, ELK.
• IaC and config mgmt: Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
• 3+ years containerization with Kubernetes/Rancher orchestration.
• Ingress controllers, TLS lifecycle, Vault integration.
• Observability: Sysdig, Fluentd, Elasticsearch.
• GitOps with ArgoCD for CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic priorities for platform hardware, software, and network needs.
• Lead teams on system performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Optimize DevOps tools to support organizational needs.
• Foster cross‑functional collaboration to productionize features.
• Oversee automated fulfillment mechanisms and platform services delivery.
• Drive security and resiliency policy development and implementation.
• Review high‑level designs and provide actionable feedback.
• Communicate findings from technical research on new systems or issues.
• Maintain vendor relationships for mutual opportunities.

Skills

Platform engineering

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Terraform

CI/CD / GitOps

Security & resiliency

Observability basics

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

9+ years relevant experience alternative

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

HashiCorp Vault

ArgoCD

Nagios

Splunk

ELK

Sysdig

Job description

Job Description

Day to Day:

Insight Global is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to work in Cleveland, OH! The Lead Platform Engineer role is responsible for setting strategic priorities for the maintenance of platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves sharing leading best practices and providing guidance to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments.

They foster a culture of collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Lead Platform Engineer leverages a strategic mindset, offers advice, and drives the development and implementation of security policies to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.

Daily Responsibilities

• Set strategic priorities for platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with overall organizational goals
• Share best practices for monitoring system performance, and lead teams responsible for system performance and troubleshooting of issues
• Leverage advanced techniques and methods for optimizing DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Teraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
• Foster a culture of collaboration among cross-functional teams to ensure new features and services are brought into production
• Leverage a strategic mindset to oversee the execution and maintenance of automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
• Lead cross-team collaboration and workstreams to ensure smooth operations
• Identify potential security threats, mitigate them proactively and set standards for a strict security compliance
• Drive and oversee the development and implementation of security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures in line with organizational strategic priorities and latest industry regulations
• Evaluate high-level design documentation, share feedback, and provide recommendations
• Interpret results and present findings from technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or severe problem resolution
• Foster strong relationships with vendors to create mutually beneficial opportunities for the organization

$120,000-$155,000

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Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 9 years of experience in the role of Platform Engineer or related position
• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components [with a strong focus on containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher.]
• Expertise in automated interaction with physical infrastructure
• Proven track record in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Expertise in monitoring and log management tools such as Nagios, Splunk, and ELK
• Proven track record in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Expertise in scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, and Kubernetes and Rancher for orchestration and cluster management
• Proven expertise in maintaining platform-level runtimes, including ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX), TLS certificate lifecycle management (e.g., cert‑manager), and secrets management integrations (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)
• Experience deploying and managing observability tools, such as Sysdig for monitoring and CVE scanning, Fluentd for log forwarding, and Elasticsearch for log analysis
• Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools, particularly ArgoCD, to support continuous deployment workflows