Azure Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer
We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join our team and support mission-critical production environments. This role focuses on cloud operations, platform reliability, Kubernetes administration, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure
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Responsibilities
- Manage, operate, and support Azure-based production environments
- Maintain and optimize AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) clusters, ensuring stability, scalability, and security
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, and availability issues
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions
- Manage cloud security controls, secrets, certificates, managed identities, and access governance
- Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Develop operational procedures, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and production readiness documentation
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, development, and business teams across the organization
- Drive operational excellence, resilience, disaster recovery readiness, and risk mitigation initiative
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Requirements
- Proven hands-on experience operating Microsoft Azure services in production environments
- Strong practical experience with AKS / Kubernetes in real-world operational environments
- Excellent troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, permissions, availability, and performance domains
- Solid understanding of networking and security fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, proxies, firewalls, private networking, certificates, and access control
- Experience with Azure Monitor, log analytics, dashboards, alerting, and observability tools
- Hands-on experience with Azure Key Vault, secrets management, certificates, managed identities, and service principals
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using Terraform
- Strong production mindset with focus on reliability, resilience, hardening, backup & recovery, rollback planning, and operational risk reduction
- Ability to create operational documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and production readiness checklists
- Ability to work independently in a complex enterprise environment with multiple stakeholders
Advantage
- Experience with Azure API Management, App Service, App Configuration, Azure SQL, Microsoft Sentinel, or Analysis Services
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or other observability platforms
- Experience working in hybrid cloud environments combining Azure and on-premises infrastructure
- Experience with Entra ID, IAM, SSO, SAML, OIDC, and enterprise access management
- Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, log analytics cost control, and reliability metrics
- Experience with OpenShift or Tanzu
- Experience working with external vendors and cloud migration projects
