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# AKS / Platform Architect

- **Company:** Pioneer IT Systems LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Failover, Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, Prometheus, Data Logging, Load Balancing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Api Gateway, Dynatrace
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5b14b607-a5fb-4fa2-aee2-d90defcee06c

## About the Role

* 5+ years of Kubernetes and container platform architecture experience
 * Proven experience designing and deploying multi-region AKS clusters with failover and load balancing
 * Hands-on GitOps implementation using Flux, ArgoCD, or similar
 * Deep knowledge of Kubernetes ingress controllers and API gateway traffic management
 * Strong understanding of Kubernetes identity and access management, including Azure AD integration, RBAC, and pod identity
 * Experience implementing observability stacks: monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing
 * Ability to travel for onsite work as needed (up to 25% annually)
Nice-to-Have

 * CKA or CKAD certification
 * Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger specifically
 * Background mentoring platform engineering teams
 * Experience in a regulated or high-availability enterprise environment

## Description

This team owns the container platform strategy for a large-scale enterprise environment.
They're building out multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure with a strong emphasis on automation, security, and developer self-service.
This is a design-and-build role, not a maintenance role.


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