Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a hands-on Kubernetes Platform Engineer to help build and operate Ecolab's new enterprise container platform across Azure and AWS. You'll provision and run production clusters, write Infrastructure as Code, build GitOps CI/CD pipelines, and automate day-to-day operations. A big early focus is standing up Azure AKS from the live AWS EKS model and moving developer-run deployments onto governed pipelines. This is a builder's role for an engineer who enjoys automating toil and keeping production healthy.

Key Responsibilities:
• Build & operate clusters: Provision, upgrade, and run production AKS/EKS clusters - networking, storage, ingress, autoscaling, observability.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain platform IaC with Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Build and improve pipelines in Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (with Kustomize) for the platform and its app teams.
• Networking: Implement cluster networking and IP allocation at scale (Cilium CNI).
• Automation: Automate cluster lifecycle, patching, cert rotation, scaling, and backups; enable self-service infra (e.g., Crossplane).
• Security: Harden clusters to CIS Benchmarks and remediate Mythos vulnerability findings with security.
• Reliability: Join the on-call rotation, troubleshoot production issues, and support app teams with golden paths and docs.

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Required Skills & Experience
• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering with hands-on production Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with AKS and/or EKS.
• Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD and GitOps pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Kubernetes networking, including pod-IP allocation (Cilium or similar CNI a plus).
• Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go).
• Working knowledge of CIS hardening.
• Comfortable across more than one cloud and/or hybrid; solid Linux, containers (Docker/containerd), and networking fundamentals.


Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• Cilium / eBPF depth
• Argo Rollouts / progressive delivery; Kustomize
• Envoy Gateway / Kubernetes Gateway API, workload identity, and Crossplane self-service infra
• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd); policy-as-code and image scanning
• Observability (Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• CKA/CKAD; Azure/AWS certs; Terraform Associate


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.