Cloud Consultant

Astera Software, Inc.; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions firm is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with expertise in Azure and Kubernetes. This role involves automating AKS clusters, building pipelines, and optimizing cloud-native platforms. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in cloud architecture and a strong understanding of .NET microservices. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work on leading-edge data solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building cloud-native solutions on Azure.
• Fluent with Kubernetes primitives and Helm templating.
• Strong knowledge of .NET Core microservices.
• Expertise in autoscaling strategies.

Responsibilities

• Automate Azure AKS clusters with IaC.
• Build release pipelines and set up tests.
• Operate AKS at scale with cost-driven rightsizing.
• Optimize .NET and gRPC workloads.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

.NET Core

PowerShell

Bash scripting

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Summary

At Astera Software, we’re building the next generation of data solutions that empower businesses worldwide. To accelerate our mission, we’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with deep expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and .NET microservices to help us scale, optimize, and secure our cloud-native platforms. If you’re someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and application performance, this role is for you.

What You\'ll Do

• Automate Azure AKS clusters and node pools with IaC (Helm, Bicep/Terraform, GitHub Actions).
• Build release pipelines, set up staging & automatic regression tests.
• Operate AKS at scale: HPA/KEDA + VPA tuning, node auto-provisioning, cost-driven rightsizing.
• Implement L7 routing with Application Gateway for Containers, AGIC, and Istio/Envoy session affinity.
• Harden clusters (RBAC, PodSecurity, Azure AD Workload Identities, Key Vault secret injection).
• Optimize .NET and gRPC workloads: GC heap limits, connection pooling, Service Bus batching, parallelism.
• Instrument everything: Prometheus + Grafana, Azure Monitor, custom metrics, alert rules tied to SLOs.
• Lead load tests, capacity planning, incident response, and post-mortems.

What You\'ll Need

• 5+ yrs building cloud-native solutions on Azure; deep AKS internals knowledge.
• Fluent with Kubernetes primitives, Helm templating, and advanced networking (CNI, network policies).
• Strong .NET Core microservices & messaging (Azure Service Bus/Event Hubs).
• Autoscaling expertise (HPA, KEDA ScaledObjects/ScaledJobs, queue-based throttling).
• Solid grasp of Envoy/Istio concepts, ingress controllers, DNS, TLS, and L4/L7 traffic shaping.
• PowerShell & Bash scripting; container build optimization with Docker BuildKit.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines, artifact promotion, and rollback strategies.
• Hands-on production experience managing mission-critical workloads and knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS design and scaling strategies would be a plus!

Typical stack

• Azure AKS
• Helm
• KEDA
• Prometheus/Grafana
• Application Gateway (AGIC)
• Istio/Envoy
• Azure SQL & Cosmos DB
• Service Bus
• .NET 8
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform/Bicep
• PowerShell