Hybrid AKS Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & DevSecOps

Direct IT Recruiting Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 117,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Direct IT Recruiting Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer with strong AKS, Kubernetes platform engineering, and deployment automation expertise. You will deploy and configure platform components in AKS, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement secure, scalable traffic management across the gateway and API layers.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps practices, observability, and hands-on work across deployment, monitoring, and automation to deliver production-ready platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes-focused Infra Engineer.
• Hands-on AKS and Azure Kubernetes Service expertise.
• Strong Deployment automation experience with Helm, manifests, or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure platform components in an AKS environment.
• Optimize platform for reliability, scalability, and secure operations.
• Build full CI/CD pipeline to support packaging, deployment automation, release management, and security scanning.
• Establish repeatable deployment standards and automation for Kubernetes-based platform components.
• Integrate logging, monitoring, and observability into the platform environment.
• Ensure platform supports secure and scalable traffic management.
• Support all platform engineering activities from deployment to production readiness.

Skills

Platform Engineer

AKS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Helm

Jenkins

Key Vault

DevSecOps

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Job description

Direct IT Recruiting Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer with strong AKS, Kubernetes platform engineering, and deployment automation expertise. You will deploy and configure platform components in AKS, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement secure, scalable traffic management across the gateway and API layers.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps practices, observability, and hands-on work across deployment, monitoring, and automation to deliver production-ready platform capabilities.