Azure Kubernetes Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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📋 Description

• Design, implement, and support containerized application platforms in the enterprise Azure cloud environment • Deliver scalable, reliable, and secure Kubernetes-based solutions as a senior individual contributor • Deploy, configure, and maintain production and non-production AKS clusters according to enterprise standards • Manage cluster lifecycle activities, including upgrades, scaling, node management, and workload integrations • Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools • Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and infrastructure-as-code • Implement and enforce AKS security controls, including RBAC, Azure AD integration, image scanning, secrets management, and network security • Monitor workloads with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana, and other observability tools • Proactively address performance and reliability issues • Partner with application teams and architects on scalable microservices and containerized solutions • Maintain documentation, runbooks, architecture patterns, and operational standards • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for AKS and related cloud platform services • Support governance, compliance, and audit requirements for Kubernetes environments • Attend select interview steps in person if requested

🎯 Requirements

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience • 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms • 3+ years of hands-on Azure experience • 2+ years supporting or managing production Kubernetes clusters, AKS preferred • Understanding of container architecture, Docker, and orchestration fundamentals • Knowledge of Azure networking, security, managed identities, and resource architecture • Experience with IaC using Terraform and Bicep • Experience with GitOps approaches such as Flux and ArgoCD • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices • Deep, hands-on daily experience administering and troubleshooting Linux and Windows Server environments • Experience with system configuration, monitoring, patching, and performance optimization • Diagnostic skills across distributed systems, compute, networking, storage, and application layers • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without company immigration sponsorship now or in the future • Preferred: Azure certifications AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, or AZ-500 • Preferred: Kubernetes certifications CKA or CKAD • Preferred: Experience with service mesh architectures such as Istio or Linkerd, or ingress controllers • Preferred: Exposure to cost optimization strategies for Kubernetes • Preferred: Understanding of microservices architecture patterns and distributed system design • No security clearance required

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation • Healthcare • Wellness benefits • Retirement benefits • Work/life benefits • Parental (including paternal) leave • Flexible work schedules • Achievement awards • Educational assistance • Child/adult backup care • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • 401(k) match • Flexible spending accounts • Employee assistance program • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off • Holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (eligibility-dependent; payments not guaranteed)

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