Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Architect – Cloud & SaaS Platforms to sit hybrid at a Cybersecurity client in Newport Beach, San Jose, or Frisco Texas. This person bring a deep background in large-scale multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern SaaS delivery. This is a unique opportunity to lead the architectural evolution of their platform, driving a critical migration from legacy EC2 topologies to cloud-native EKS/Kubernetes clusters, and designing the backbone for our next-generation AI and real-time data services.
(This role can pay $220,000-245,000 based on years of experience).
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Required Skills & Experience
-10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering and architecture, with a proven track record of managing large-scale cloud deployments in AWS (primary), GCP, or Azure.
-Deep, hands-on mastery of Kubernetes and EKS, including experience with custom controllers, operators, and migrating stateful/stateless workloads from VMs to containers.
-Strong experience architecting infrastructure for high-scale data systems, specifically real-time stores (Aerospike, Redis) and analytics engines (Druid, ClickHouse).
-Extensive experience designing secure infrastructure, including implementation of Zero Trust networks, WAFs, and secret management systems. Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC2, PCI-DSS) is a plus.
-Proven ability to build observability pipelines from scratch using OpenTelemetry collectors and backend visualization tools (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog).
-Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash. You automate toil relentlessly and have deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
-Deep understanding of cloud networking (VPC, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect) and protocols (gRPC, HTTP/2, WebSocket, QUIC).
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.