Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Remote & Automation Lead

Insight; Chandler (AZ); Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight is seeking a Senior Production Engineer (IC4) to support critical customer engagements within the SADA contractor program. You will lead OS modernization, migrate packaging, and harden infrastructure while performing hands-on runbooks, automation, and service onboarding, in collaboration with CloudTech SRE and customer teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering across 1,700 systems, with modern monitoring stacks and incident response, plus opportunities to influence cloud cutovers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on experience in Python.
• Lead and execute OS modernization and large-scale packaging migrations (RHEL7 → EL8/9, Chef → CINC) across approximately 1,700 systems and VMs.
• Triage, own, and resolve complex S-bugs.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, and rollout/rollback mechanisms for legacy-to-modern infrastructure transitions.
• Partner closely with CloudTech SRE to provide follow-the-sun tier-2 support.
• Build, maintain, and configure RPMs, and execute operational runbooks for OS upgrades and configuration management changes.
• Onboard services to newly established monitoring and logging stacks, and handle hands-on incident response and break/fix operations on existing platforms.
• Automate repetitive operations and thoroughly document technical procedures.
• Proven experience planning and executing logging and monitoring tools.
• Experience enabling, supporting, and guiding developers during cloud cutovers and component migrations to cloud environments.
• Perl scripting experience.

Responsibilities

• Successfully migrating and updating configurations across ~1,700 systems/VMs from RHEL7 to EL8/9.
• Developing and executing automated runbooks and building RPM packages to replace legacy configurations.
• Transitioning monitoring infrastructure to a modern stack (Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana) and managing Splunk integrations.
• Providing Tier-2 operational support and incident response under a follow-the-sun model.
• Assisting application developers with architectural support and troubleshooting during cloud migration phases.

Skills

Python

OS modernization

Packaging migrations

SRE collaboration

Perl scripting

Tools

Chronosphere

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

RPM packaging

Job description

Insight is seeking a Senior Production Engineer (IC4) to support critical customer engagements within the SADA contractor program. You will lead OS modernization, migrate packaging, and harden infrastructure while performing hands-on runbooks, automation, and service onboarding, in collaboration with CloudTech SRE and customer teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering across 1,700 systems, with modern monitoring stacks and incident response, plus opportunities to influence cloud cutovers