Senior Platform Engineer (Azure, AKS & Kafka)

Position Description:

Company Profile:
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Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer (Azure AKS & Kafka)

Position: Senior Systems Engineer

Experience: 7 yrs

Category: IT Infrastructure

Main location: Bangalore

Position ID: J0126-2019

Employment Type: Full Time

Qualification: Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Position Description
Senior Platform Engineer (Azure AKS & Kafka)

Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design automate and scale our cloud this role you will be the backbone of our development ecosystem managing our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments optimizing our Kafka streaming clusters and ensuring our Hasura/PostgreSQL data layers are performant and secure.

Key Responsibilities
1. Infrastructure & Kubernetes Orchestration

. Cluster Management: Provision and maintain AKS and ARO environments; optimize resource allocation (CPU/Memory) and drive cloud cost-efficiency.
. Networking: Manage complex networking requirements including BGP configurations and secure connectivity.
. IaC & Automation: Use Terraform/Terramate and GitHub Actions to automate the provisioning of Kafka clusters and Azure resources.
. Secure Connectivity: Expert at configuring Azure Private Link and Private Endpoints to ensure Kafka and Database traffic remains off the public internet.
. Advanced AKS Networking: Hands-on experience with Azure CNI for pod networking and managing Internal Load Balancers for high-availability traffic routing.
. Traffic Governance: Mastery of Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Kubernetes Network Policies (Cilium/Azure NPM) to enforce Zero-Trust security.
. Hybrid Routing: Deep understanding of VNET Peering and BGP for low-latency connectivity between AKS clusters and Kafka brokers.
. Load Balancing: Expertise in configuring Azure Application Gateway (WAF) for L7 ingress and Azure Internal Load Balancers for L4 Kafka bootstrap connectivity across Availability Zones.
. DNS & Service Discovery: Proven experience managing Azure Private DNS Zones for internal name resolution and integrating ExternalDNS with AKS to automate record management.
. Traffic Management: Ability to manage CoreDNS within Kubernetes to optimize service discovery and prevent lookup latency for high-throughput Kafka producers.

2. Kafka Administration & Data Ops

. Stream Management: Act as the primary administrator for Kafka managing brokers partitions and ACLs.
. Performance Tuning: Independently debug optimize and implement Kafka solutions based on evolving business needs.
. Data Layer: Manage and scale PostgreSQL databases and the Hasura GraphQL engine to ensure seamless API delivery.

3. CI/CD & Observability

. Pipeline Engineering: Design and administer robust Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines to support continuous integration and deployment.
. Enterprise Monitoring: Maintain full-stack visibility using Grafana Prometheus OpenSearch and KibanaDynatrace.
. Troubleshooting: Lead random investigations and root-cause analysis to enhance system reliability and performance.


Required Skills & Qualifications

. Experience: 8 years in Azure AKS and DevOps with deep specialization in Kafka Administration.
. Cloud Mastery: Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services; familiarity with GKE is a plus.
. Tooling: Expert knowledge of Terraform Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
. Observability: Proficiency in Grafana/Prometheus and the ELK/OpenSearch stack. Exposure to Dynatrace is highly valued.
. Data Savvy: Experience with GraphQL (GQL) and managing relational databases (PostgreSQL).
. Mindset: Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and collaborate effectively with developers and stakeholders.


Good-to-Have

. Certification: Kafka Certified Engineer.
. Development: some knowledge with Java and building REST/OpenAPI modern APIs.

Behavioural Competencies:
Proven experience of delivering process efficiencies and improvements
Clear and fluent English (both verbal and written)
Ability to build and maintain efficient working relationships with remote teams
Demonstrate ability to take ownership of and accountability for relevant products and services
Ability to plan prioritize and complete your own work whilst remaining a team player
Willingness to engage with and work in other technologies
CGI is an equal opportunity addition CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Pleas
let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Skills:

• Apache Kafka
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.