Senior Platform Engineer (SDP – Secure Delivery Platforms)

Post Date

Jun 30, 2026

Location

Vancouver,
British Columbia

ZIP/Postal Code

V6J 1
Canada
Sep 01, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Programmer / Developer

Req #

VAN-674c5954-6d3c-4f7f-b287-2f76ecacf323

Pay Rate

$46 - $57 (hourly estimate)

Who Can Apply

  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Enterprise Platform Engineering team for a leading Vancouver-based retailer. This role is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on designing, operating, and evolving GitLab SaaS, Terraform Cloud, and CI/CD automation at enterprise scale. You will collaborate with platform, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, resilient DevOps solutions, while driving the adoption of AI-assisted workflows across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include:
- Own and manage GitLab SaaS and Terraform Cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with security and SSDLC standards
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, runners, templates, and shared components
- Develop and promote Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), including reusable modules, guardrails, and policy-as-code
- Design and operate GitOps workflows and automate provisioning, access management, and lifecycle processes
- Integrate AI-assisted capabilities into CI/CD, code review, incident response, and operational workflows, ensuring responsible and governed use
- Maintain platform reliability through observability, metrics, and on-call support
- Analyze platform performance, identify improvement opportunities, and provide insights to inform roadmap decisions
- Create documentation, runbooks, and reference architectures to support best practices and self-service adoption
- Drive enablement through templates, automation, and participation in communities of practice (demos, office hours, etc.)

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Skills & Expertise
• Deep hands-on experience with GitLab SaaS and Terraform Cloud (CI/CD, Infrastructure, Governance, Metrics)
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS or cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems
• Platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE practices at enterprise scale
• Software supply chain security (artifact governance, vulnerability management, provenance)
• Policy-as-code (OPA/Rego or Sentinel) and compliance automation
• Experience embedding AI-assisted tooling into engineering workflows

Qualifications
• 10+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Proven ownership of production platforms with high availability and security requirements
• Experience driving automation, reliability, and developer productivity improvements
• Strong collaboration and communication across engineering, product, and security

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.