Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.

Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.


About the Opportunity:
Shape the Future of Our Global Kubernetes Platform!
We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to take on AKS platform engineering and Day2 within our Cloud Kubernetes Engineering team. This is an opportunity to play a contributing role in supporting how we build, operate, and scale our Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform globally.
If you have in-depth expertise in Kubernetes engineering and operations, cloud architecture and operations, and Azure infrastructure, and you enjoy taking ownership and making an impact, solving complex challenges, and thrive in a place where you can design and troubleshoot, we want to hear from you.
Location: Anywhere in the United States and Canada.
Citizenship Requirement for US Candidates:
• Must be a US citizen.
• Ability to obtain US security clearance.
Citizenship Requirement for Canadian Candidates:
• 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.
What You'll Do
Support AKS Platform Strategy & Operational Excellence
· 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
Kubernetes Technical Operations & Proactive Problem-Solving
· 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
Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform
· 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

Expertise, Communication & Cross-Team Collaboration
· 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

What You Bring:
· 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 t