Cloud Engineer ( Azure Platform Engineer)- Remote Ontario at Smile Digital Health
Toronto
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Jul 29, 2026
Toronto
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role owns the full lifecycle of production Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters at a healthcare data platform company — from cluster architecture, networking, and security hardening through observability, performance tuning, and incident response. The engineer serves as the internal SME for Kubernetes, collaborates with application and security teams, and contributes Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code alongside GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines. It suits an experienced platform or cloud engineer with deep AKS and Kubernetes internals expertise.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,550 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 530–4,600
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (5)
The posting does not specify a city or country, but the benefits mention RRSP/TFSA (Canadian retirement accounts) alongside 401K, suggesting the company is Canadian (Smile Digital Health is headquartered in Canada). The role is fully remote, so the work location is ambiguous; the US-based flag has been defaulted to true per instructions, but this may be a Canada-based remote role.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes Terraform IaC and owns CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but a substantial portion of the work is operating and maintaining AKS infrastructure rather than shipping application code (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen because Terraform authorship and GitOps pipeline ownership are primary responsibilities.
CKA and CKAD are listed as an either/or gate ('CKA, Or CKAD certification'), combined with a hard requirement for AZ-104. Both certification requirements are stated as required in the qualifications section.
NGINX and Traefik appear together as ingress controller examples in the responsibilities narrative rather than a formal requirements section; they are marked as preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
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