Cloud Platform Engineer

Role Descriptions:

• Design and deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with private cluster configurations| managed identities| and RBAC.
• Configure AKS networking Azure CNI| Kubenet| internal load balancers| and ingress controllers (AGIC NGINX).Integrate AKS with Azure Container Registry (ACR)| Key Vault via CSI driver| and Azure Monitor for containers
• Manage Helm chart deployments| namespaces| resource quotas| and pod security policies.
• Implement node pool autoscaling| cluster upgrades| and blue-green deployment strategies.
• Harden AKS environments policy enforcement (Azure PolicyOPA Gatekeeper)| network policies| and image scanning.
• Build and maintain CICD pipelines for containerized workloads using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Troubleshoot cluster and workload issues| including networking| DNS| resource constraints| and crashes.
• Develop runbooks and operational documentation for AKS platform management.
• Coordinate with application teams to onboard workloads onto the AKS platform.

Essential Skills:

• More than 5 years of Kubernetes experience with at least 2 years on AKS in production.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals scheduling| networking| storage| RBAC.
• Experience with Helm| Kustomize| and GitOps workflows (FluxArgoCD).
• Proficiency in Azure CNI networking and AKS private cluster configuration.
• Hands-on experience with ACR| managed identities| and Key Vault integration.
• CI/CD pipeline experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) preferred.
• Scripting skills in Bash| Python| or PowerShell.Nice to have
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD certification.
• Experience with service mesh (Istio| Linkerd) on AKS.
• Exposure to multi-cluster and multi-region AKS architectures.