Platform Engineer

Title: Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Duration: Full Time

Location: Dallas, TX - Hybrid Onsite 4 days/week

Compensation: $75,000 - $140,000

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holder, or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

This role supports the build, optimization, and ongoing operation of enterprise data and AI platforms within a large-scale, highly regulated environment. You’ll work alongside senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure, automation, and platform enhancements that enable data‑driven decision making and AI innovation. This is a hands‑on role focused on cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops practices, and platform reliability across modern data and AI ecosystems.

Collaborate with platform leads and senior engineers:

• Support delivery of platform initiatives and enhancements
• Provide regular updates and contribute to team objectives
• Partner with teams across security, networking, cloud operations, and application development

Support cloud platform engineering and deployment:

• Assist in building and maintaining cloud infrastructure across Azure and related services
• Configure networking and security components (virtual networks, access controls, routing, private connectivity)
• Support data platform services including clusters, compute resources, and data governance tooling

Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code:

• Build reusable Terraform modules for cloud and data platform resources
• Standardize configurations and support automation initiatives
• Participate in code reviews and CI/CD validation processes

Contribute to platform automation and process improvements:

• Develop scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency
• Help create documentation, SOPs, and onboarding materials
• Support continuous improvement of deployment and configuration standards

Monitor platform performance and troubleshoot issues:

• Analyze logs, metrics, and system behavior to identify issues
• Support stability and performance optimization efforts
• Assist with maintaining observability using monitoring tools

Support platform reliability and incident response:

• Participate in troubleshooting and remediation activities
• Assist with incident response under guidance from senior engineers
• Contribute to maintaining service‑level objectives (SLOs)

Build and maintain monitoring and alerting:

• Develop dashboards and alert rules for infrastructure and data workloads
• Support log ingestion and monitoring automation

Support CI/CD and release management:

• Maintain pipelines using Git Hub Actions or Azure Dev Ops
• Assist with infrastructure deployment workflows (Terraform plan/apply)
• Support build and deployment of data platform assets

Provide operational and production support:

• Assist with patching, remediation, and platform hardening
• Support user tickets and platform issues
• Participate in after‑hours or on‑call rotations as needed

• 5+ years of overall IT experience in enterprise environments
• 3‑5 years of hands‑on cloud engineering experience (Azure preferred)
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and networking concepts, identity and access management, core cloud services (storage, security, data services)
• Experience with data platforms, including hands‑on exposure to tools like Databricks
• Infrastructure‑as‑code expertise:
  Terraform and Git‑based development workflows
• CI/CD experience:
  Azure Dev Ops and/or Git Hub Actions
• Scripting skills:
  Python, Bash, or Power Shell
• Containerization knowledge:
  Docker and basic Kubernetes concepts
• Monitoring and observability: familiarity with cloud monitoring and logging tools
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively

• Experience working in regulated or enterprise‑scale environments
• Exposure to data engineering or AI/ML platforms
• Experience building reusable infrastructure modules
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.