Azure Platform Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Smile Digital Health

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 $30M Series B on 2023-01

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Smile Digital Health is a company specializing in healthcare data interoperability and health IT solutions. Their Smile Health Data Platform enables efficient data ingestion and transformation into FHIR resources, enhancing clinical decision-making and business intelligence. Focused on compliance and security, Smile Digital Health offers services such as prior authorization automation, standardizing data exchange, and supporting healthcare providers, payers, and health information exchanges with customizable and scalable solutions.

📋 Description

• Act as the subject-matter expert (SME) for Kubernetes deployments, troubleshooting, and production issues across all environments • Design and deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with private cluster configurations, managed identities, and RBAC • Own the health, scaling, and lifecycle management of production AKS clusters, including upgrades, node pool management, autoscaling, and capacity planning • Configure AKS networking, including Azure CNI, internal load balancers, and ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik) • Design and maintain integrations between AKS and Azure Container Registry, Key Vault via CSI driver, Azure Monitor for containers, Azure SQL, Kafka/Event Hubs, Azure Storage, and client-facing dependencies • Manage containerized application deployments using Docker and Helm; maintain reusable chart and templating standards, namespaces, resource quotas, and Azure Policy for AKS • Harden AKS environments through policy enforcement, network policies, and image scanning • Own container and cluster vulnerability management, including scanning, triage, prioritization, and remediation coordination • Contribute to Terraform-based infrastructure as code for provisioning and managing Azure resources • Support Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD pipelines, including GitOps workflows with Flux/ArgoCD • Design, implement, and manage observability across Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Workspace, and Application Insights • Define SLIs/SLOs and tune alerting to reduce noise • Identify, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across the AKS platform and dependent services • Contribute to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning procedures, including failover drills and RTO/RPO validation • Provide escalation support for production Kubernetes and infrastructure incidents; participate in on-call rotation, lead root-cause analysis, and drive preventative actions • Document runbooks, post-incident reviews, and operational knowledge; maintain a living knowledge base

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals: scheduling, networking, storage, RBAC • Proficiency in Azure CNI networking and AKS private cluster configuration • Hands-on experience with Azure PaaS services (ACR, AKV, Azure SQL, Kafka and Managed Identities) • Experience troubleshooting network-layer dependencies (DNS, firewall, private endpoints) • Experience with Helm • Working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure as code • Working knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD tooling • Practical experience with container/cluster vulnerability management and remediation workflows • Scripting skills in Bash and Python • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to convey technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote Work Environment • Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days • Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits • RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution • Life and Disability • Employee Assistance Program • FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning • Super HAPI Fun Club • Workplace accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile