Azure Platform Engineer - AKS, Terraform & CI/CD

Capgemini; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions in Seattle, WA seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design and maintain cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure. You will architect AKS clusters, implement IaC with Terraform, and build secure, scalable multi-region architectures.

Responsibilities include deployment, operation, and optimization of AKS, Docker-based workloads, incident response, observability, and automated CI/CD pipelines. On-site contract role with strong emphasis on security and governance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem tools.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps preferred).
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Azure Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure.
• Architect and manage AKS clusters for production workloads.
• Implement IaC using Terraform.
• Design multi-region, highly available architectures leveraging Azure services.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize AKS clusters.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker.
• Troubleshoot cluster performance, networking, and workload issues.
• Lead incident response, production support, and post-incident reviews.
• Implement observability for underlying systems.
• Ensure high availability, minimal downtime and scalability for platform services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational runbooks.
• Improve developer experience through self-service platform capabilities.
• Implement Azure security best practices including Managed Identities, Key Vault, and RBAC.
• Secure Kubernetes clusters (network policies, pod identity, secrets management).
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Tools

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Tundra Technical Solutions in Seattle, WA seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design and maintain cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure. You will architect AKS clusters, implement IaC with Terraform, and build secure, scalable multi-region architectures.

Responsibilities include deployment, operation, and optimization of AKS, Docker-based workloads, incident response, observability, and automated CI/CD pipelines. On-site contract role with strong emphasis on security and governance.