Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

Insight is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer with deep expertise in cloud migration programs and API management to join their professional services practice. This role involves owning delivery outcomes across complex engagements, coordinating engineers, advising customer stakeholders on technical strategy, and serving as an authoritative voice on migration architecture and API platform design. The successful candidate will ensure customer programs deliver on time and on scope, unblock and hold engineers accountable, and build customer trust for future challenges.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in a professional services, consulting, or delivery-led environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end cloud migration programs at enterprise scale, including multi-wave, multi-team datacenter exit or estate transformation programs involving 500+ workloads.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing Apigee X or Apigee Hybrid deployments in production enterprise environments, including legacy gateway migration programs.
• Ability to assess customer estates holistically and assign the correct migration pattern (rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, retire, or replace) based on application complexity, business criticality, technical debt, and cost of change.
• Ability to lead complex estate transformations end-to-end, including multi-layer coordination across application, data, network, and security workstreams, and custom tooling development where standard products are insufficient.
• Proficiency in selecting and deploying the right migration tooling for each program, such as Migrate to Virtual Machines, Migrate to Containers, Database Migration Service, Striim, Datastream, Carbonite Migrate, or Zerto.
• Ability to design hybrid and multi-cloud architectures required during phased datacenter exits where workloads must operate across on-premises and GCP simultaneously during transition.
• Ability to advise customers on migration strategy at an executive level, including honest recommendations to retire, replace, or not migrate specific workloads, with impartiality.
• Proficiency in migration program governance: wave sequencing, dependency tracking, risk register management, rollback planning, and executive-level customer reporting across complex programs.
• Ability to scope and estimate migration complexity using structured discovery and assessment tooling (CloudPhysics, Turbonomic, Migrate to Virtual Machines discovery) and produce defensible estimates.
• Ability to architect multi-region Apigee X deployments with Global Load Balancing, cross-region failover, and Private Service Connect for southbound connectivity to distributed backends.
• Ability to design and deliver Apigee Hybrid deployments on GKE for organizations managing APIs across on-premises and GCP simultaneously; own the operational model for hybrid runtime management.
• Ability to design Global API Mesh: org-wide shared flow governance, reusable security fragment libraries, standardized error taxonomies, and API product portfolio governance across multiple teams and business units.
• Ability to lead large-scale legacy gateway migration programs (MuleSoft, Kong, Akana, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management) to Apigee, including proxy inventory, policy equivalence mapping, proxy template design, migration wave sequencing, and northbound cutover planning.
• Ability to advise on API product strategy, versioning policies, deprecation paths, and the organizational model for API producer and consumer teams, including governance structures that prevent API sprawl at enterprise scale.
• Ability to implement Advanced API Security: bot detection, volumetric threat protection, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT verification and generation, mutual TLS, and integration with enterprise identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, Google Cloud Identity, Ping Identity).
• Ability to build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and API delivery using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
• Ability to implement IaC orchestration tooling (Spacelift, Atlantis, or Terraform Enterprise) with appropriate access controls.
• Ability to write production-grade Terraform modules; manage remote state and multi-environment workspaces; resolve state conflicts and drift in delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery outcomes across multiple parallel workstreams simultaneously, including large-scale cloud migration programs and API management engagements.
• Accountable for overall team output quality across L2–L4 engineers.
• Lead complex estate transformations: coordinate multi-layer migration programs spanning application, data, network, and security teams across coordinated waves with hard decommission deadlines.
• Architect and govern API platforms: design multi-region Apigee X deployments, Global API Mesh governance structures, and large-scale legacy gateway migrations.
• Validate all workstream estimates before they are presented to customers.
• Own the accuracy of the overall delivery timeline and escalate scope risks before they become delivery failures.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, program managers, and senior stakeholders on migration strategy, API platform governance, and cross-domain trade-offs.
• Gather requirements directly from customer stakeholders and translate them into scoped, deliverable technical programs.
• Identify and own escalations within engagements; resolve technical blockers and delivery risks before they surface as customer issues.
• Proactively identify expansion opportunities beyond the current statement of work, such as post-migration modernization, API monetization, governance maturity programs, or platform engineering follow-ons.
• Shape conversations with customer stakeholders regarding expansion opportunities.
• Challenge misaligned decisions: push back on unrealistic timelines, over-scoped commitments, or technically misguided PM proposals with data and reasoned alternatives.
• Mentor and coordinate L2–L4 engineers across delivery programs.
• Conduct technical reviews, validate architecture decisions, and hold the team accountable for quality and pace.
• Contribute to practice IP: produce reusable assessment frameworks, migration wave templates, Apigee proxy accelerators, and API Ops pipeline templates that reduce delivery time on future engagements.

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