Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, IaC & CI/CD

Insight Global; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate a globally distributed cloud infrastructure. You will build secure cloud environments, automate runtimes, and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on work in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with on-call rotations and a focus on scalability and security.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and GCP).
• Deep, hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) + GitOps (Argo CD) or similar orchestration.
• Extensive Terraform and Ansible usage, plus CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and Python scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a globally distributed cloud infrastructure platform using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes-based platforms and workloads (EKS/GKE) with GitOps (Argo CD).
• Support and automate CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Skills

AWS & GCP

Kubernetes

GitOps Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Python

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Networking & IAM

Observability

Vault

On-call

Git & workflows

Security best practices

Multi-cloud

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

MQ

Project leadership

Scalability & Resilience

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate a globally distributed cloud infrastructure. You will build secure cloud environments, automate runtimes, and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on work in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with on-call rotations and a focus on scalability and security.