Azure Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Remote & Growth

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

RRSP/TFSA

401K

Life insurance

Disability

Employee Assistance Program

FHIR study program

Fun club

Job summary

Smile Digital Health in San Francisco seeks an experienced Azure Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate production AKS clusters with strong focus on security, reliability, and observability.

You will own cluster architecture, CI/CD integration, monitoring, and incident response, collaborating with application, security, and platform teams to keep AKS environments scalable and production-ready.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals: scheduling, networking, storage, RBAC.
• Proficient with Azure AKS and CNI networking.
• Experience with Helm and container deployments.
• Terraform for IaC and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps).
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Strong written and verbal communication for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy AKS clusters with private config and RBAC.
• Own health, scaling, and lifecycle of production AKS clusters.
• Configure AKS networking with Azure CNI, internal LB, ingress.
• Integrate AKS with ACR, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and other services.
• Manage deployments with Docker, Helm; manage namespaces and quotas.
• Harden AKS with security policies and image scanning.
• Contribute to Terraform-based IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain observability with Grafana/Prometheus and Azure Monitor.
• Lead on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

AKS internals

Azure CNI

Helm

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Bash/Python scripting

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Helm

Job description

Smile Digital Health in San Francisco seeks an experienced Azure Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate production AKS clusters with strong focus on security, reliability, and observability.

You will own cluster architecture, CI/CD integration, monitoring, and incident response, collaborating with application, security, and platform teams to keep AKS environments scalable and production-ready.