Kastech Canada

Operations

• Assess and improve cloud operations processes, including provisioning, deployments, incident response, and change management
• Lead the design and operational maturity of Azure Kubernetes Service environments, including cluster topology, node pools, upgrades, scaling, resiliency, ingress/egress, workload identity, secrets, and runtime security
• Lead Azure networking architecture and troubleshoot complex connectivity, network, and performance issues
• Design and implement Terraform infrastructure as code with reusable modules and safe lifecycle management
• Strengthen GitOps and deployment standardization using Argo CD and Helm
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions with quality gates, validation, security scanning, and automated delivery
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
• Promote production readiness through runbooks, readiness reviews, and operational checklists
• Provide L3/L4 escalation support and lead high-severity incident triage, recovery, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
• Mentor and unblock Cloud Operations engineers during complex technical challenges
• Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, Security, and Delivery teams on operational patterns, platform guardrails, and production readiness

Principal Azure Platform – Cloud Operations Architect