Remote - Canada Contract Salary not specified
Contract
Randstad Canada is seeking an Azure Platform Engineer for a six-month contract with the intention to convert to a full-time permanent position. The role is described as 100% remote and focuses on designing, deploying, and operating production-grade Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage private AKS clusters, including upgrades, node pools, autoscaling, and capacity planning.
- Configure Kubernetes networking, Azure CNI, load balancers, and ingress controllers.
- Integrate AKS with Azure services such as Container Registry, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Event Hubs, Storage, and private endpoints.
- Manage container deployments with Docker and Helm, and develop Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
- Support CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Azure DevOps, Argo CD, or Flux.
- Strengthen cluster security through network policies, image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and policy enforcement.
- Implement observability with tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.
- Support application teams with performance and resource optimization, and contribute to disaster recovery planning and failover drills.
- Provide production incident escalation support, participate in on-call rotations, lead root-cause analyses, and document operational runbooks.
Qualifications
- At least five years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing production Kubernetes clusters.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, including scheduling, networking, storage, controllers, and RBAC.
- Experience with AKS private clusters, Azure CNI, and Azure PaaS integrations.
- Hands-on experience with Helm and working knowledge of Terraform.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD and GitOps deployment workflows.
- Experience with container image scanning and vulnerability remediation.
- Scripting skills in Python and Bash.
The posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies. Only qualified candidates will be contacted.