Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Insight Global; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Grand Rapids is seeking a Sr Cloud Platform Engineer to join a 10-person Agile team developing an air traffic management SaaS solution. You will mature an advanced application with limited customer access into a robust, scalable production service with strong reliability, security and recovery criteria.

The role focuses on implementing cloud/platform improvements while supporting remaining application and data-processing needs.

Qualifications

• Experience taking cloud-native SaaS from pilot to production.
• High-availability services experience across cloud, networks, compute and storage.
• Hands-on implementor with practical IaC, CI/CD, observability, tests and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Mature cloud/platform into a scalable production service with reliability and security in mind.
• Develop actionable monitoring, runbooks, and review-ready assurance evidence.
• Collaborate in a small Agile team to support data-processing needs and handover to core team.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes/AKS

Containers

Linux

Terraform/Bicep

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Jenkins

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

An Aerospace Company in the Grand Rapids area is looking for a Sr Cloud Platform Engineer to join a 10-person Agile team developing an air traffic management SaaS solution that will be supporting safety-critical activities. This person will help mature an advanced application with limited customer access into a robust and scalable production service. The 2027 team focus is approximately 70% productionization, including planned DO-278 assurance level 4 (AL4) work. This person will primarily implement cloud/platform improvements while supporting remaining application and data-processing needs. The expected outcome is a tested, repeatably deployable platform that meets agreed reliability, scalability, security, and recovery criteria. Actionable monitoring and runbooks; review-ready assurance evidence; and effective handover to the core team.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experienced in taking cloud-native SaaS from pilot to production and supporting high-availability services (we are looking for a senior hands-on implementor, not solely an architect or advisor)
• Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, containers, Linux, and troubleshooting across applications, networks, compute, and storage experience
• Practical infrastructure-as-code (ex. Terraform/Bicep), CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and software development/scripting skills
• Experience with Cloud security and distributed data-processing; documentation, clear communication, and effective collaboration in a small cross-functional Agile team