Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – REMOTE

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is seeking a REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep experience in Azure, AKS, IaC, and SRE practices. You will build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence for legal investigations. Our environment is highly containerized, fully automated, and built around Azure services, AKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, and GitOps workflows.

US Citizenship with a Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secret clearance and experience supporting the Federal Government is REQUIRED.

What you will be doing

• Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting.
• Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Implement GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub workflows.
• Deploy and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Manage Azure networking, identity, and security (VNets, Private Link, RBAC, Key Vault).
• Run Azure data services: PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Redis, AI Search, Storage, ACR.
• Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, KQL dashboards, incident response, performance tuning.