Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – 14694

Veritaz is a leading IT staffing solutions provider in Sweden, committed to advancing individual careers and aiding employers in securing the perfect talent fit. With a proven track record of successful partnerships with top companies, we have rapidly grown our presence in the USA, Europe, and Sweden as a dependable and trusted resource within the IT industry.
Assignment Description:
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team.
What you will work on:
Design, build, and manage a secure, scalable, multi-cluster cloud platform in Azure, with a strong focus on AKS.
Develop and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform following best practices, including modules, workspaces, state management, and CI integration.
Operate and optimize AKS clusters for both stateless and stateful workloads, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Implement secure network policies and micro-segmentation using Cilium and eBPF.
Establish and manage GitOps deployment flows using Argo CD, including installation, configuration, and operational upkeep in AKS.
Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and platform automation to support efficient delivery and operations.
Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve platform stability and reliability.
Collaborate closely with development, security, and platform teams to define and promote common standards, patterns, and automation practices.
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, onboarding materials, and support knowledge sharing among junior engineers.

What you bring:
6–7 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
Strong hands-on expertise in Azure, including AKS, VNets, Load Balancers, Managed Identities, Azure AD, Storage, and Networking.
Solid proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and managing Azure resources, including experience with modules, workspaces/state backends, and CI-driven deployments.
Experience installing, configuring, and operating Argo CD in AKS, and implementing GitOps-based application delivery flows.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts including Deployments, StatefulSets, Services/Ingress, Helm, and CRDs.
Practical experience working with Cilium and eBPF for cluster networking and micro-segmentation.
Proven experience operating and troubleshooting multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with diverse workloads and namespaces.
Demonstrated ability to analyze, monitor, and optimize cloud costs through efficient architecture and resource utilization.
Good scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages, and experience with CI tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
Strong foundation in security principles for cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Meritorious experience including Azure, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications; policy-as-code tooling; and Terraform Enterprise/Cloud in production environments