Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes

Dayforce is a global human capital management company headquartered in Toronto and Minneapolis. They are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support the AKS platform engineering and operations, contributing to the global Kubernetes Service by ensuring scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Help with the technical implementation of our AKS platform, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and future-proofing
• Provide input into how our global Kubernetes platform operates, helping to refine, implement, and validate best practices, and contributing to decision-making
• Assist and implement AKS platform standards enforcement
• Work with platform team members, security teams, infra engineering teams, and other stakeholders to align Kubernetes strategies with business needs
• Take ownership of incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for AKS-related issues
• Provide internal customer AKS/Kubernetes support and provide subject expertise
• Help ensure AKS clusters are up to date, secure, and in sync, minimizing drift across environments
• Help identify potential scaling, security, or operational risks before they become issues, and proactively implement solutions
• Provide Day2 support and operational efficiency of the Kubernetes clusters
• Work on automation of cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and decommissioning
• Improve and standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementations using Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitHub workflows
• Help with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to streamline Kubernetes deployments, and work within the CKE team and with Release Engineering for internal customer-facing integrations
• Drive consistency in AKS configurations across all environments
• Provide technical input within the Kubernetes team, supporting a culture of learning and innovation
• Be an effective communicator, able to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to your team
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure AKS platform adoption and adherence to best practices
• Help us drive continuous improvement initiatives for our Kubernetes platform
• Assist with both greenfield onboarding of containerized applications and microservices, and lift-and-shifts

Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen
• Ability to obtain US security clearance
• Ability to obtain or currently possess Canadian Protected B security clearance is mandatory
• Must possess 5+ years of residency in Canada
• Applicant must be Canadian citizen and able to work Government of Canada and USA Government projects
• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure design and implementation, with deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture
• 3+ years of hands-on in-depth experience managing Kubernetes in dev/qa/prod, including deep troubleshooting of platform and workloads and Day2 operations
• 3+ years of cloud and/or Kubernetes operations experience
• Good understanding of AKS, including cluster operations, networking, identity, and security best practices
• An ability to identify future challenges and proactively design and implement solutions to mitigate risks before they become issues is a real plus
• Good hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ArgoCD), and CI/CD automation
• Understanding of Kubernetes internals, operations, controllers, networking (CNI), is required, and observability tools is a plus
• Proven experience in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and proactive problem resolution in Kubernetes environments
• Experience with defining and enforcing Kubernetes platform standards across multiple teams and clusters is also a plus
• Proactive problem solver – capable of anticipating challenges and addressing them before they impact operations
• Strong communicator – able to explain complex technical concepts in a clear, accessible way
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)