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# AKS / Platform Architect

- **Company:** ApTask
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Azure, Disaster Recovery, Failover, Identity and Access Management, Routing, Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Data Logging, Load Balancing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Azure AKS, Api Gateway, Dynatrace
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0554b1cb-b6b2-4b95-9a40-8cbaa4c3f2a6

## About the Role

We are seeking an experienced AKS / Platform Architect to design, implement, and manage Kubernetes-based platform solutions on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in multi-region AKS deployments, GitOps practices, ingress management, identity and access control, and observability to enable scalable enterprise container platforms., * Multi-region AKS: Expertise in designing and deploying AKS clusters across multiple Azure regions with proper failover, load balancing, and data consistency strategies

 * GitOps: Hands-on experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as Flux, ArgoCD, or similar solutions for declarative infrastructure and application management
 * Ingress: Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes ingress controllers, API gateways, and traffic management solutions for routing and load balancing
 * Identity: Deep understanding of Kubernetes identity and access management, Azure AD integration, RBAC, pod identities, and service accounts
 * Observability: Expertise in implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, or Azure Monitor
 * Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or equivalent) strongly preferred
 * Minimum 5+ years of Kubernetes and container platform architecture experience

## Description

* Design and architect multi-region AKS solutions aligned with organizational availability and disaster recovery requirements
 * Implement and manage GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployment automation
 * Configure and manage ingress controllers and load balancing solutions for secure traffic routing
 * Design and implement identity and access management solutions using Azure AD, RBAC, and pod identity
 * Establish comprehensive observability solutions including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing
 * Architect platform services and abstractions to enable developer productivity and operational excellence
 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable platform architecture
 * Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineering teams


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