Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform EngineerLocation:This is a remote work opportunity in CanadaInsight at a Glance14,000+ engaged teammates globally$8.2 billion in revenue in 2025Certified as a Great Place to work in 9 Countries in 2025Fortune 500 Company (No. 447) in 2025Received 25+ industry and partner awards in the past year$1.4M+ total charitable contributions in 2024 by Insight globallyNow is the time to bring your expertise to Insight. We are not just a tech company; we are a people-first company. We believe that by unlocking the power of people and technology, we can accelerate transformation and achieve extraordinary results. As a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator with deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent edge, we guide organizations through complex digital decisions.About the roleAs a Senior Platform Cloud Engineer (L4) within our Professional Services Practice, you will serve as the definitive technical authority on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) API management strategy and implementation. You will own customer-facing technical workstreams end-to-end, designing enterprise-grade Apigee architectures while mentoring junior engineers to elevate collective delivery quality. Success in this role means establishing robust, secure, and automated API developer platforms that seamlessly accelerate our enterprise clients' modernization journeys. You will get to:Own Technical Delivery: Lead the end-to-end technical execution of Apigee-centric workstreams with minimal oversight, serving as the primary engineering point of contact for customer technical leads.Architect API Lifecycles: Design and implement comprehensive API proxy lifecycles, environment group routing structures, developer portals, and promotion pipelines across environments (Dev, Staging, Production).Enforce Enterprise Security: Build and deploy advanced API security structures, implementing Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), bot detection, mutual TLS (mTLS), OAuth2/OIDC token governance, and direct integrations with enterprise IDPs (e.g., Okta, Azure AD).Drive API Ops & Automation: Independently build CI/CD automation pipelines for API proxy deployment using Maven or Python Apigee plugins integrated with tools like Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.Accelerate Gateway Migrations: Map policy equivalence, inventory legacy proxy states, and execute migration waves to transition customers off legacy API gateways (such as MuleSoft or Kong) onto Apigee.Develop Infrastructure as Code: Author, maintain, and review production-grade Terraform modules to provision Apigee X landing zones, Shared VPC networks, and Private Service Connect (PSC) configurations.Mentor & Validate Team Output: Provide active technical mentorship to L2 and L3 engineers, performing thorough code reviews on proxies, shared flows, and deployment scripts to ensure absolute correctness.Manage Project Scope & Risks: Proactively identify technical delivery risks and dependencies, produce defensible workstream-level estimates, and communicate technical constraints clearly to both internal and client project managers.Be AmbITious: This opportunity is not just about what you do today but also about where you can go tomorrow. When you bring your hunger, heart, and harmony to Insight, your potential will be met with continuous opportunities to upskill, earn promotions, and elevate your career.What were looking for:Professional Experience: Minimum of 5–7 years in IT consulting or cloud engineering roles, with at least 3 years dedicated to enterprise API management.Expert Apigee Proficiency: Advanced hands-on experience designing and operating Apigee X or Apigee Hybrid environments, including custom policy formulation, shared flows, and reusable security fragment architecture.Practitioner DevOps Skills: Demonstrated ability to construct secure, production-grade CI/CD pipelines and manage state files, environments, and multi-team drift containment within Terraform.Practitioner Migration Capabilities: Solid exposure to cloud inventory tools (e.g., CloudPhysics) and pattern identification (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor), with practical experience orchestrating multi-wave application cutovers.Target GCP Certifications: Must hold a minimum of two active Google Cloud certifications, including the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Network Engineer. A dedicated Apigee certification or commitment to achieve it within 90 days is highly preferred.Communication Fit: Excellent written and verbal consulting communication skills, with proven experience defending technical decisions and designs to enterprise client engineers.Preferred QualificationsDirect experience deploying and custom-theming Drupal-based or Apigee-native Developer Portals.Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native deployment layers such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Cloud Run to serve as backend targets for API routing.Experience utilizing IaC governance orchestration tooling such as Spacelift, Atlantis, or Terraform Enterprise.Join us today, your ambITious journey starts here.Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.At Insight, we celebrate diversity of skills and experience so even if you don’t feel like your skills are a perfect match - we still want to hear from you!Insight does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. Unsolicited resumes will be treated as direct applications from the candidate, and recruiters or agencies who submit candidates for this position without a prior, written vendor agreement will not be eligible for any form of compensation, even if the candidate is hired.About InsightInsight’s success begins with our people making meaningful connections every day. Our culture lives in our teammates. Insight is looking for great people who will embrace our values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony. Hunger to create new opportunities for our clients. Heart to make a positive impact in people’s lives. Harmony to celebrate each other’s unique contributions to bring solutions to clients.Join us as we work to deliver the best solutions through Intelligent Technology, the new IT.Global technology provider of IT hardware, software and service solutionsFortune 500 company founded in 19885,400 teammates worldwide, operating in 22 countriesOne of The Valley’s 2015 Healthiest Employers (Phoenix Business Journal)2015 Dell Healthcare Partner of the Year, 2015 HP PartnerOne Financial Services Partner of the Year, 2014 Cisco Global Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year, Microsoft’s No. 1 Global Licensing Solution ProviderDiscover more at insight.com or email View email address on click.appcast.io is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.Posting Notes: Remote || Ontario (CA-ON) || Canada (CA) || IT Infrastructure & Support || None || Remote - Canada || #J-18808-Ljbffr