Azure Kubernetes Developer

Sierra Business Solution LLC
Dallas, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Dallas, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Azure
Computer Networks
Continuous Integration
DevOps
DNS
Subnetting
Key Management
Log Analysis
Nginx
Octopus Deploy
OpenID
Role-Based Access Control
Reliability Engineering
Azure
Istio
System Availability
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Bicep
Azure
Terraform
Azure

Job description

Design, build, and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for production workloads with high availability, scalability, and security.

Own AKS cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, upgrades, patching, version skew handling, and decommissioning across environments (devtestprod).

Architect and manage AKS networking: Azure CNI Azure CNI Overlay, VNet & subnet design, IP planning, NSGs, UDRs, NAT Gateway, and Private Endpoints.

Implement and maintain ingress and gateway solutions (NGINX Ingress Gateway API Istio gateways) for north south traffic on AKS.

Enforce Kubernetes Network Policies (CiliumCalicoAzure NP) to control pod to pod, namespace, and egress traffic.

Manage node pools (systemuserspotGPU), VMSS configuration, autoscaling (HPAVPACluster Autoscaler), tolerations, and affinity rules.

Implement security best practices for AKS: RBAC, Azure ADEntra integration, Pod Security Standards, secrets management with Azure Key Vault.

Enable workload identity using Azure Workload Identity (OIDC) for secure pod to Azure service authentication (no secrets).

Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Bicep for AKS, networking, identities, and supporting Azure resources.

Establish GitOps deployment patterns (Argo CD or Flux) for platform components, base manifests, and cluster add ons.

Configure observability and monitoring: Azure Monitor for Containers, Log Analytics, PrometheusGrafana, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks.

Support platform add ons: CSI drivers, Azure DiskFile, cert manager, external-dns, autoscaling tools, and policy engines (OPA GatekeeperKyverno).

Drive reliability engineering: backup & restore (Velero), DR strategies, zone aware deployments, chaos testing, and capacity planning.

Partner with application and DevOps teams to define platform standards, onboarding patterns, CICD integration, and operational best practices.

Requirements

8+ Years of experience on Azure and 4+ years experience on AKS, istio mesh.

Design and Development, BachelorsMaster s in Computer Science or equivalent

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