Azure Platform Engineer: AKS, API Management & WAF Expert

Virtusa; Halifax; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa is seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to design, implement and optimize cloud solutions in Azure. The role focuses on AKS, API Management, Application Gateway, WAF, and monitoring tools, ensuring reliable, scalable cloud operations.

The candidate will work with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps processes, supporting databases like MongoDB and SQL Server, and collaborating with DevOps for CI/CD pipelines. On-site in Halifax, Canada with strong security practices required.

Qualifications

• Azure Certification with hands-on experience in Azure services like AKS, API Management, Application Gateway and WAF.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, security, monitoring and automation in Azure.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for Azure-based cloud services including AKS, API Management, Application Gateway and WAF.
• Manage and troubleshoot Azure services such as Event Hub, Azure SQL, Application Insights, Virtual Networks and WAF.
• Work with Kubernetes environments, troubleshoot deployments with Helm, monitor resource utilization, and support GitOps processes.
• Automate provisioning with Terraform and maintainIaC practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot MongoDB and SQL Server databases ensuring high availability and performance.
• Monitor cloud health using Grafana and Azure Monitor with proactive alerts.
• Collaborate with development teams using Azure DevOps for repos and CI/CD pipelines.
• Create and maintain documentation on cloud infrastructure, deployments and runbooks.
• Perform root-cause analysis for incidents and implement preventive actions.
• Continuously optimize cloud services for performance, scalability and security.

Skills

Azure Certification

Cloud Architecture

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Helm

Grafana

Azure DevOps

Job description

Virtusa is seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to design, implement and optimize cloud solutions in Azure. The role focuses on AKS, API Management, Application Gateway, WAF, and monitoring tools, ensuring reliable, scalable cloud operations.

The candidate will work with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps processes, supporting databases like MongoDB and SQL Server, and collaborating with DevOps for CI/CD pipelines. On-site in Halifax, Canada with strong security practices required.