Platform Engineer (L4)

Title: Platform Engineer (L4) Location: Denver, CO - Hybrid Type: Contract to Hire Pay Rate: $60/hr - $70/hr Required Skills & Experience Strong communication skills with ability to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infrastructure stakeholders Expert-level experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena, EMR, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable) Experience managing cross-account AWS architectures, VPC peering, PrivateLink, and transit gateway configurations Experience with IAM policy design, least-privilege access patterns, and service account management Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred) Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and shell scripting Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, CIDR, NAT, firewalls, security groups Demonstrated ability to work across teams and coordinate with external platform owners on connectivity and access requirements Nice to Have Skills & Experience Experience with graph databases (AWS Neptune, Neo4j) including deployment, scaling, and operational management Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms Experience with Apache Spark (Scala preferred) for distributed data processing Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration platforms Experience in the telecommunications industry or other large-scale network operations environments Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure requirements (model serving, GPU/CPU compute, artifact management via MLflow or similar) Experience with Splunk integration, particularly Edge Processor and MCP connectivity AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar) Job Description An Insight Global client’s Infrastructure Intelligence and Analytics (IIA) team builds and operates the data platform and AI agent infrastructure that powers proactive network monitoring and autonomous investigation for network operations. As part of this group, the Platform Engineer IV is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the AWS infrastructure that underpins the IIA Data Lake, agent runtime environments, CI/CD pipelines, and graph database systems. This role ensures production environments are stable, scalable, and secure while enabling data science and agentic AI workloads to operate reliably at scale.