Senior Backend Engineer – Kotlin, Terraform, IaC, AKS

Role: Sr. Backend Engineer

Location: Toronto- Hybrid: 3 days a week onsite (Tuesday-Thursday)

Primary Skill Set

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / InfraOps
- Terraform
- Kotlin

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Kotlin-based backend development and hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation and Infrastructure Operations (InfraOps). The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building scalable backend services while enabling highly automated, cloud-native platforms through Infrastructure as Code practices.

Technical Skills

- Strong Experience with Infrastructure Operations (InfraOps) tools and practices, such as:
- Terraform Cloud/Enterprise
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
- Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including provisioning and managing cloud resources.
- Good to have proficiency in Kotlin, with additional experience in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Security) and JavaScript/Node.js.
- 7 to 8+ years of backend software engineering experience designing and developing scalable, resilient, and secure applications.
- Strong experience building and maintaining REST APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, and integration services.
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerized application deployment.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms,



preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.
- Hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, BDD, and automated testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with observability and operational tooling such as logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.

Development Practices

- Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, GitOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
- Ability to collaborate across development, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams.
- Experience driving engineering best practices, code quality standards, and platform automation initiatives.

Additional Skills

- Experience designing secure, scalable cloud-native architectures.
- Exposure to open-source technologies and cloud-native ecosystems.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and create proof-of-concepts to improve engineering productivity and platform reliability.
- Solid communication and mentoring skills, with experience supporting and guiding junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Azure networking, security, and cloud governance.
- Knowledge of container security, secrets management, and infrastructure compliance practices.
- Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud-related certifications are considered an asset.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer – Kotlin, Terraform, IaC, AKS (Toronto)
🏢 Astra North Infoteck
📍 Toronto