Platform Engineer SOW229 Edge Compute

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

Seattle, WA, United States (On-site)

Contract (6 months 11 days)

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Azure Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure
• Architect and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for production workloads
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (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
• Reliability & Operations:
• Lead incident response, production support, and post-incident reviews
• Implement observability for underlying systems
• Ensure high availability, minimal downtime and scalability for platform services
• Automation & DevOps:
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational runbooks
• Improve developer experience through self-service platform capabilities
• Security & Governance:
• 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

Required 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

Key Skills

• AKS cluster administration and troubleshooting
• Observability and monitoring expertise
• Incident management and root cause analysis
• Cross-team collaboration and communication

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $36.98/hour - $57.79/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.