Pay: 140,000-175,000 yearly

Contract Duration: Permanent

Work Arrangement: Remote in Canada/US

We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.

Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role.

Required Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering)
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles.
- Proven experience delivering and operating Azure environments.
- Experience designing, implementing and delivering large scale Azure platforms
- Experience building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, or shared services for internal development teams.
- Experience driving large projects, where you have demonstrated leadership skills, partnering with technology teams and leaders, building horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Azure AI Services / AI Infrastructure Exposure
- Azure API Management
- Observability, Monitoring & Alerting
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
- CDKTF
- Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, or other highly regulated industries

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to join one of our big 5 banking clients. This is a senior, hands-on engineering position for an individual contributor who thrives in designing, building, automating, and operating cloud platforms used by multiple engineering teams.

As a technical subject matter expert,



you will help drive large-scale cloud initiatives while partnering closely with engineering, security, risk, and architecture teams. The successful candidate will bring deep platform engineering expertise, strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation skills, and experience building shared cloud services that support large, complex organizations. The role will play a key part in accelerating Azure adoption while ensuring security, scalability, governance, and operational excellence across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and operate enterprise-scale Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain shared platform capabilities that support multiple technology teams across the organization.
- Build reusable cloud components, deployment patterns, and self-service capabilities to accelerate Azure adoption.
- Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and up-to-date cloud automation frameworks.
- Develop automation, tooling, and operational solutions using Python.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps capabilities that improve platform consistency, efficiency, and reliability.
- Implement Azure landing zones, networking, identity, governance, and security controls.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish standardized platform patterns and cloud best practices.
- Design solutions with scalability, resiliency, observability, governance, and operational excellence in mind.
- Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Lead complex technical initiatives and influence platform strategy across multiple teams and stakeholders.

📌 Principal Cloud Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Canada