Platform Engineering Lead: Azure AKS, Data & IaC

Capgemini; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure with AKS, focusing on cloud-native services and data platforms in Seattle. You will optimize databases, implement data pipelines with Azure Data Factory, and develop analytics workloads on Databricks.

Responsibilities include IaC with Terraform, Python automation, data security, backups, DR, and CI/CD automation.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in platform engineering and cloud infrastructure.
• Kubernetes (AKS preferred) experience.
• Professional-level experience in database design, SQL, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and data processing.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (IaC) for cloud and data platforms.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory for data ingestion and orchestration.
• Experience with Azure Databricks for data transformation and analytics.
• Understanding of data security, governance, access control, and compliance.
• Experience with Azure cloud-based data and platform services.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and logging practices (Prometheus, Azure Monitor).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable platform infrastructure on Azure (AKS).
• Develop and optimize high-performance database solutions for reliability and scale.
• Build and manage data pipelines using Azure Data Factory.
• Develop, support, and optimize data processing and analytics workloads on Azure Databricks.
• Implement and manage Terraform-based IaC for cloud and data platforms.
• Write Python scripts for automation, monitoring, and data processing tasks.
• Ensure data integrity, security, availability, including backups and DR strategies.
• Monitor health of platform, databases, and data pipelines; resolve issues proactively.
• Collaborate with application, analytics, and platform teams to support data needs.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation for infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployments.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

SQL design & tuning

Python scripting

Terraform IaC

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Data security & governance

Observability & monitoring

Tools

AKS / Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Prometheus

Azure Monitor

Job description

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure with AKS, focusing on cloud-native services and data platforms in Seattle. You will optimize databases, implement data pipelines with Azure Data Factory, and develop analytics workloads on Databricks.

Responsibilities include IaC with Terraform, Python automation, data security, backups, DR, and CI/CD automation.