Description

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of our internal cloud migration, proactively communicating across organizations to clear roadblocks, align on technical dependencies, and move workloads efficiently.
• Leverage existing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks, actively identifying failure points and improving them as we migrate.
• Assist heavily in debugging existing deployment pipelines and infrastructure tools, writing code (C#) and scripting (PowerShell) to resolve issues and increase reliability.
• Adopt an unwavering "own it, make it better" mentality; take responsibility for the stability and efficiency of the tools and processes you interact with.
• Take a data-driven approach to your decisions using telemetry and metrics, working effectively in a dynamic environment where you need to think on your feet.
• Establish strict, objective success metrics for environment parity and migration speed, ensuring we have the data to prove our strategic wins and honor our timeline commitments.

What You Bring

• Senior-level engineering experience with a proven track record of managing and rapidly deploying services in cloud environments (specifically Azure).
• Deep expertise in Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and migrating/provisioning environments with a focus on efficiency and speed.
• Exceptional communication skills, with a proven ability to articulate complex technical challenges across different organizational boundaries to resolve blockers.
• Highly motivated self-starter who thrives as part of a broader team but requires minimal direction to dive into existing systems, figure things out, and drive results.
• Strong proficiency in utilizing and refactoring existing Terraform code for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementation.
• Highly adept at PowerShell scripting and debugging to improve system automation and configuration.
• Strong working knowledge of C# to effectively debug and enhance existing object-oriented infrastructure tooling.
• Proven track record of using telemetry and metrics to ground decisions in objective data.

Core Responsibilities

• Lifecycle Orchestration: Automate the end-to-end lifecycle of StatefulSets: provisioning, seamless volume expansion, graceful termination, and automated re-attachment during node failures.
• High Availability & Uptime: Implement advanced scheduling logic (Pod Topology Spread Constraints, Anti-affinity) to ensure stateful workloads survive zonal outages and maintenance windows.
• Storage Performance & Tuning: Optimize Azure Disk (Premium/Ultra) and Azure NetApp Files integration via CSI drivers to minimize IOPS bottlenecks and latency.
• Disaster Recovery Automation: Develop and test automated "Snapshot-to-Restore" pipelines. Ensure that the Actual State of data volumes can be recovered to the Goal State in minutes, not hours.
• Infrastructure as Code: Utilize Terraform to provision the hardened Azure foundation (Disk Encryption Sets, Proximity Placement Groups, and Networking) required for high-performance stateful clusters.
• Observability & Health: Build deep-visibility dashboards and alerting for Persistent Volume (PV) utilization, disk pressure, and stateful replication lags.

Technical Qualifications

• Kubernetes Internal Mastery: Expert-level understanding of StatefulSet controllers, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), and the Container Storage Interface (CSI).
• Azure AKS Specialist: Deep experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, specifically around persistent storage integration and Azure-specific networking constraints.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficient in Go or Python/Bash for writing custom controllers or maintenance hooks (PreStop/PostStart) that ensure data consistency during updates.
• Reliability Engineering: Proven track record of managing production databases or distributed systems (e.g., Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch) on Kubernetes.
• GitOps & State Management: Experience using GitOps to manage complex stateful deployments where order of operations matters

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate