Platform Engineer, AKS & DevOps for Japan

Manulife IT Delivery Center Asia Inc.; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Financial Corporation is hiring a Platform Engineer (Level 6) to support DevOps and AKS operations for the Japan market as part of the ETS Reliability Engineering team. The role is based in the Philippines and focuses on platform reliability, automation, and secure deployments of Azure Kubernetes workloads.

Responsibilities include day-to-day AKS support, CI/CD pipeline management, incident response, platform upgrades, and collaboration with Security and Compliance teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Strong experience with DevOps practices and cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AKS and Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes concepts (Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets).

Responsibilities

• Provide Day-to-Day DevOps and AKS operational support for the Japan market platforms.
• Manage and support AKS clusters across Non-Prod and Prod environments.
• Support application onboarding, deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting on Kubernetes.
• Maintain and operate CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Perform incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident follow-ups.
• Support platform upgrades and changes, including config server upgrades, certificate renewals, and security changes.
• Collaborate with application teams to ensure adherence to platform standards, best practices, and reliability requirements.
• Implement and enhance automation, monitoring, alerting, and self-service capabilities.
• Work closely with Global Platform, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure governance and control adherence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational handovers as required.

Skills

DevOps practices

Cloud-native platforms

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

Kubernetes concepts

Linux/Unix OS

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Security concepts (RBAC, identities,/证

Communication across distributed teams

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Manulife Financial Corporation is hiring a Platform Engineer (Level 6) to support DevOps and AKS operations for the Japan market as part of the ETS Reliability Engineering team. The role is based in the Philippines and focuses on platform reliability, automation, and secure deployments of Azure Kubernetes workloads.

Responsibilities include day-to-day AKS support, CI/CD pipeline management, incident response, platform upgrades, and collaboration with Security and Compliance teams to ensure