Kubernetes / AKS Platform Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Kubernetes / Platform Engineer to support enterprise-scale Kubernetes environments across Azure AKS and on-prem infrastructure. This role focuses on production operations, troubleshooting, platform reliability, and Kubernetes administration in a large enterprise environment. Ideal candidates will have strong AKS experience, deep troubleshooting skills, and production support for containerized applications., * Manage and support Kubernetes environments (AKS + on-prem K8S)

• Troubleshoot production platform and networking issues
• Support ingress, routing, scaling, storage, and workload isolation
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Work with Helm, GitOps, and containerized workloads
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams on platform improvements
• Support cloud infrastructure and operational best practices
• Assist with emerging AI/ML platform workloads running on Kubernetes, Enterprise-scale platform engineering environment supporting modern cloud-native and AI transformation initiatives.

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred)
• Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments
• Kubernetes networking, ingress, RBAC, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Azure cloud infrastructure experience
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions)
• Helm and container deployment experience
• Linux and cloud operations background
• Experience with enterprise observability and monitoring tools

Nice to Have

• Rancher / K3s experience
• Service mesh exposure (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd)
• GitOps / ArgoCD
• AI/ML workload deployment experience
• Azure OpenAI / Azure Foundry exposure