SRE – Kubernetes, Cloud, Terraform, Azure

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. ~ Conquering today’s challenges, achieving tomorrow’s vision!; Markham; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in York Region, Markham is seeking a Cloud Architect to manage and optimize complex cloud architectures. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience and proficiency in major cloud platforms, ideally Azure. Responsibilities include designing networking architecture, managing cloud operations, and contributing to organizational cloud strategies. Candidates should possess strong skills in modularized IaC, cloud security, and containerization technologies. Join a dynamic team driving premier cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and management.
• Understanding of microservices principles and API Gateway technologies.
• Experience with modularized IaC strategies.

Responsibilities

• Help create and maintain Cloud Architectural Artifacts.
• Design, implement, and manage networking, firewalling, and routing.
• Monitor resource utilization and demand trends for capacity planning.

Skills

Proficiency in Azure

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

IAM and encryption

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Vault

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Responsibilities

• Help create and maintain Cloud Architectural Artifacts.
• Design, implement and manage networking, firewalling and routing.
• Develop implementation‑level architecture for scalable IaC strategies (e.g., modularization).
• Define platform versus service‑level architecture decisions.
• Contribute to and maintain organization‑wide Architecture Decision Records.
• Enable Cloud policies, procedures and standards.
• Plan for disaster resiliency, recovery and availability.
• Establish IaC tooling, use and quality gating.
• Consult on and select cloud technology stack services in line with scalability, performance, security and compliance requirements.
• Support Cloud operational practices.
• Drive e‑commerce and enterprise‑wide projects.
• Model and optimize cloud infrastructure TCO.
• Monitor resource utilization and demand trends for capacity planning.
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers to ensure smooth operations and support.
• Lead compliance with organizational security practices and auditing.
• Ensure maximal uptime of infrastructure and services through monitoring, alerting and on‑call support.
• Drive best‑in‑class cloud strategies.
• Transfer knowledge, train and mentor cloud practices across the engineering organization.

Experience & Skills

• Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Google Cloud or AWS.
• Experience with modularized IaC (Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
• Configuration and secrets management (Consul, Vault, KMS, Consul Template).
• Operational concerns: disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, change, incident and knowledge management.
• Containerization technologies (Docker, ContainerD, Kubernetes, registries, artifact tools).
• Administration of Kubernetes clusters.
• Understanding of microservices principles and API Gateway technologies.
• Event‑driven architecture principles and tooling (PubSub, Kafka).
• Serverless computing services (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda).
• Cloud networking concepts: VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, security groups.
• Strong cloud security best practices: IAM, encryption, SAST/DAST tooling.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, EFK/ELK, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic).
• Diagramming tools (Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid).
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience.