Azure Kubernetes Service Engineer

Summary:

The Senior AKS Engineer is responsible for designing, building, automating, and supporting enterprise Kubernetes platforms within Microsoft Azure. This role requires deep hands-on expertise with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), cloud-native technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and platform operations in large-scale production environments.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, manage, and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.

• Administer Kubernetes workloads, node pools, ingress, scaling, networking, and storage.

• Build and maintain Docker containers and Kubernetes deployment configurations.

• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Troubleshoot Kubernetes, infrastructure, networking, and application deployment issues.

• Implement Kubernetes and Azure security best practices including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and workload identity.

• Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and platform reliability initiatives.

• Collaborate with development and architecture teams to improve platform scalability and deployment efficiency.

• Create and maintain operational documentation, standards, and runbooks.

• Comply with all company policies and procedures.

• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Other Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position is an individual contributor.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree from a Four (4) year College or University.

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Kubernetes administration.

• Strong experience with:

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Terraform or Infrastructure as Code

  • Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions

• Experience with Helm, ingress controllers, and Kubernetes networking concepts.

• Strong troubleshooting skills in production cloud environments.

• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms.

• Knowledge of Azure networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud security best practices.

• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• None Required

Work Complexity:

Problems and issues faced are numerous, typically undefined where information is difficult to obtain. Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems and how to make sense of them in the larger financial/mortgage (or job-specific) industry. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses. 

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is normally performed in a typical interior office work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation. Applicants as well as employees are encouraged to meet with Human Resources as the organization shall review reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Job Responsibilities:

The statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as an all-inclusive list of all the work requirements of the position. The company may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.

#LI-DH1