AKS Workstream Lead
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Role Purpose
Lead detailed design, implementation, security integration, validation, and handover of the enterprise AKS platform.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Own AKS detailed design for Dev, QA, Prod, and DR.
- Validate Azure landing-zone prerequisites, subscriptions, quotas, identity, policies, and shared services.
- Design private clusters, node pools, autoscaling, PDBs, upgrade and maintenance patterns.
- Lead IaC module and pipeline implementation for AKS and dependencies.
- Implement Entra ID, RBAC, workload identity, Key Vault, registry, policy, and admission controls.
- Integrate networking, observability, backup, DR, and FinOps controls.
- Design and execute AKS platform, security, performance, resilience, upgrade, and recovery tests.
- Lead AKS pilot application onboarding and production-readiness evidence.
- Produce AKS build books, runbooks, administration guides, and KT.
Required Technical and Consulting Capabilities
- AKS architecture and administration
- Azure CNI, private clusters, ACR, Key Vault, Azure Policy and Defender
- Terraform/Bicep and Azure DevOps/GitHub
- Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Log Analytics
- Kubernetes security, availability, autoscaling, upgrades and DR
- Helm/Kustomize and application onboarding
Experience Profile
- 8+ years in Azure engineering and 4+ years delivering production AKS platforms in enterprise environments.
Preferred Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate
- DevOps Engineer Expert
- CKA/CKS
- Terraform Associate
Required Behaviours
- Strong ownership, structured problem solving, and clear documentation.
- Ability to work collaboratively with Architecture, Cybersecurity, IAM, Network, Operations, Finance, and application teams.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, fixed-timeline program with formal dependencies and acceptance evidence.
- Ability to communicate risks early, propose practical compensating controls, and avoid unsupported commitments.
- Commitment to knowledge transfer and transfer of administrative control to client.
Key Deliverables and Success Measures
- Assigned design, implementation, testing, documentation, and handover outputs are completed to agreed quality and schedule.
- Requirements are traceable to backlog, code/configuration, tests, evidence, and acceptance.
- Solutions comply with approved architecture, security, technology, and information-management standards.
- Risks and dependencies are identified early and actively managed.
- Client’s teams can operate and maintain the delivered capabilities following transition.
The hourly compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $75-$95 CAD.
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