Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer (Plotly Dash Enterprise – GCP / Kubernetes)
Location: Dallas, TX (Remote)
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through ZipStaff — No C2C or 1099)

About the Opportunity
ZipStaff is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support the migration and ongoing administration of a Plotly Dash Enterprise platform for a leading healthcare organization.

This is a long-term individual contributor role focused on migrating Plotly Dash Enterprise from Microsoft Azure (AKS) to Google Cloud Platform (GKE). You will own the administration and engineering of the Dash Enterprise environment, including Kubernetes infrastructure, Helm-based installation and upgrades, identity integration, and cutover, so that the data applications business teams rely on move to GCP with minimal disruption and are operated reliably afterward. This is a remote role. U.S. Citizen or Green Card preferred. Candidates must be located in EST, CST, or MST time zones.

What You’ll Do:

Lead the migration of Plotly Dash Enterprise from Azure AKS to GCP GKE, including inventory and validation of the current Azure environment, target architecture, cutover planning, rollback strategy, and runbooks.
Install, configure, and upgrade Dash Enterprise on GKE Standard using Helm, including workspaces, resource limits, node pools, tolerations, and platform health.
Provision and manage the GCP infrastructure for the platform, including GKE clusters and node pools, VPC networking, internal load balancing, persistent SSD storage with customer-managed encryption, and a container registry, using Terraform.
Migrate the platform’s supporting services, including PostgreSQL, Gitea, the container registry, and the Keycloak identity layer, and validate data integrity after cutover.
Re-establish identity and security integrations in GCP, including Keycloak federation with PingFederate and LDAP, Istio ingress, certificate management, secrets, and network and firewall access.
Design and enforce workload isolation for the Dash environment, including dedicated node pools, network policies, resource quotas, and organization policy compliance.
Migrate existing Dash applications and validate them on the new platform, working with application owners on dependency, connectivity, and configuration changes.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Harness or ArgoCD) and manage artifacts and container images through enterprise registries, plus monitoring, logging, and alerting for the new environment.
Document the platform, operating procedures, and migration lessons learned, and hand off knowledge to the internal team.
Collaborate across platform, cloud, security, networking, and application teams to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of professional experience in platform, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
Hands-on experience administering Plotly Dash Enterprise, or deep experience administering comparable Kubernetes-hosted data-application platforms with the ability to learn Dash Enterprise quickly.
Strong experience with Kubernetes (GKE), including deployment, networking, ingress, storage, node pools, and troubleshooting.
Production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, VPC networking, IAM, persistent storage, encryption).
Demonstrated experience leading a cloud-to-cloud or on-premises-to-cloud migration of a production platform.
Proficiency with Terraform and Helm.
Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (Harness, ArgoCD, or similar) and Git-based workflows.
Working knowledge of identity and security integration, including OIDC/SAML, LDAP, certificates, and secrets management.
Experience administering PostgreSQL, including backup, restore, and migration.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools and with production support practices.
Strong problem-solving, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to work fully remote from EST, CST, or MST time zones.
U.S. Citizen or Green Card preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure (AKS, networking, storage) to inventory and validate an existing environment during migration.
Direct experience administering Plotly Dash Enterprise at enterprise scale.
Experience migrating Dash Enterprise or similar platforms between cloud providers.
Experience with Keycloak, PingFederate, or similar identity providers.
Experience with Gitea or other self-hosted Git platforms.
Familiarity with Dash/Plotly application development to support application migration and troubleshooting.
Experience with GCP security and governance controls (organization policies, customer-managed encryption, Gatekeeper or equivalent policy enforcement, Workload Identity).
Experience with Istio or similar service mesh and ingress controllers.
Experience in a regulated enterprise such as healthcare, insurance, or financial services.
Experience with Power BI or Tableau if Plotly experience is limited.

Benefits:

Health Insurance.
Dental Insurance.
Vision Insurance.
401(k) + 401(k) matching.
Paid time off.
Referral Program.

About ZipStaff
ZipStaff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high-impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches, clear communication, and long-term success for candidates and clients.

To apply, submit your resume highlighting your 8+ years of platform/DevOps/cloud infrastructure experience, Kubernetes (GKE) and GCP expertise, Terraform/Helm proficiency, and any Plotly Dash Enterprise, cloud-to-cloud migration, or comparable data-application platform administration experience. Pure research or junior experience will not be considered.

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Senior Platform Engineer – Plotly Dash/GCP

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