Platform Infrastructure Engineer

K1X

Platform Infrastructure Engineer building and maintaining Azure infrastructure for K1X's digital K-1 solutions. Collaborating within a remote team to enhance engineering efficiency and security.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDNSGrafanaKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- Design, build, and maintain Azure-based infrastructure, with a primary focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Architect and operate infrastructure to support continuous availability — including zero-downtime deployments, automated rollouts, and the ability to scale capacity up and down in response to predictable demand peaks and quiet periods throughout the year.
- Own system reliability and maintenance practices, including patching, upgrades, and configuration management across environments, ensuring infrastructure remains healthy, current, and audit-ready.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans — including documented runbooks, tested recovery procedures, rollback strategies, and data recovery protocols that can be executed confidently when needed.
- Develop and document reusable tools, networking patterns, and infrastructure templates for engineering teams to follow.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams when infrastructure changes are coming, or when working with them to understand what they need.
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of workflows.
- Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, enabling repeatable and auditable provisioning across environments.
- Implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions, including Grafana dashboards and alerting, to provide teams with clear visibility into system health.
- Manage identity and access using Microsoft Entra ID, applying least-privilege principles across services and teams.
- Approach all infrastructure work with a security-first mindset — proactively identifying risks, enforcing compliance patterns, and communicating deviations from standard operating procedures.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and adjacent teams on infrastructure changes, timelines, and dependencies.
- Contribute to the team's knowledge base by creating runbooks, architecture documentation, and onboarding guides.

Requirements

What you’ll need

- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure in a production environment.
- Deep experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — cluster management, networking, scaling, gitops and day-2 operations.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VNets, NSGs, private endpoints, DNS, and ingress/egress patterns.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code — Terraform preferred.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitHub Actions.
- Comfort working in a small, remote team with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to work cross-functionally, explain technical decisions clearly, and keep stakeholders informed.
- Security-conscious approach to infrastructure design and operations.
- Eastern or Central time zone required for team collaboration.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- Unlimited Vacation Policy + Sick Time + Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Fully Remote Opportunity
- Healthcare Benefits and 401K
- Growing Startup to Scale Up Culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

Azure infrastructureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)infrastructure-as-codeTerraformCI/CDGitHub Actionscloud networkingdisaster recoverybusiness continuityobservability

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationautonomyownershipsecurity-consciouscross-functional teamworkdocumentationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementproactive risk identification