Insight Global is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer for a global retailer to take technical ownership of and scale an enterprise AI platform within GCP.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, though this person will provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams. The ideal candidate has personally built and operated enterprise AI/ML platforms in production, specifically within GCP and Vertex AI, and can own critical platform architecture decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Own and evolve the enterprise AI platform architecture within GCP
- Build and scale Vertex AI MLOps capabilities, including training pipelines, Model Registry, evaluation/approval workflows, and model serving
- Establish MLOps/LLMOps standards across development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Build GenAI platform capabilities including RAG, grounding, prompt management, guardrails, evaluations, agents, and MCP integration
- Develop reusable Terraform modules, Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines
- Create self-service “golden path” templates for engineering teams
- Implement AI/ML observability and FinOps practices, including tracing, drift detection, latency, token usage, and cost monitoring
- Establish platform standards around security, governance, scalability, and responsible AI




- Remain hands-on with Python while owning key architecture decisions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering, data, architecture, security, and product teams

Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of experience across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, or enterprise architecture
- Proven experience building and operating enterprise AI/ML platforms in production
- Deep hands-on expertise with GCP and Vertex AI
- Strong experience with MLOps and LLMOps architecture
- Vertex AI experience across training pipelines, Model Registry, evaluation/approval, and model serving
- GenAI experience with RAG, grounding, guardrails, evaluations, agents, and/or MCP
- Solid Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, and CI/CD experience
- Experience building reusable/self-service platform capabilities for other engineering teams
- Experience with AI/ML observability and FinOps
- Advanced Python software engineering skills
- Ability to independently own major platform architecture decisions

Pay Transparency:

Expected salary starting at $200,000

Vacancy Disclosure:

This role is for a new vacant opening within a growth project.

Please note, artificial intelligence tools are used to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position.

📌 Principal Platform Engineer (Vancouver)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Vancouver