Senior Kubernetes & Azure Platform Lead

AIA Digital+; Makati; Hybrid; PHP 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Digital+ in Makati, Philippines is seeking a Cloud Platform Consultant to lead AKS design, deployment, and optimization for enterprise workloads, ensuring security, scalability, and high availability. You will drive automation, CI/CD practices, and platform governance while guiding architecture decisions in Azure.

You will own 24/7 service operations, collaborate with security and engineering teams, and mentor the team to strengthen platform excellence and operational resilience across the

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Kubernetes/AKS environments, or Platform Operations.
• Strong expertise in public cloud (primarily Azure), including AKS architecture, operations, and optimization.
• Relevant certifications (Azure, Kubernetes, ITIL) preferred.
• Proven experience in enterprise container platform operations, including automation, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Strong understanding of IT service management (ITIL), governance, and operating models.
• Experience working in complex, global, or decentralized organizations.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and vendors, ensuring service quality and SLA adherence.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and optimization of AKS clusters and container platform services for enterprise workloads.
• Drive governance, standards, and best practices for Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, security, and operational consistency.
• Own and actively lead 24/7 service operations, managing incident, change, request, and problem processes to ensure high availability and service reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing operational processes, automation, and platform efficiency.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues across Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Enable cloud adoption and application modernization, providing guidance to application teams on Kubernetes architecture and deployment practices.
• Drive CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve deployment speed and reliability.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and engineering teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, strengthening capability and knowledge across the team.

Skills

Kubernetes/AKS

Cloud engineering

Automation

CI/CD

Git workflows

Stakeholder management

ITIL knowledge

24/7 operations

Security practices

Observability

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Azure Monitor

Job description

AIA Digital+ in Makati, Philippines is seeking a Cloud Platform Consultant to lead AKS design, deployment, and optimization for enterprise workloads, ensuring security, scalability, and high availability. You will drive automation, CI/CD practices, and platform governance while guiding architecture decisions in Azure.

You will own 24/7 service operations, collaborate with security and engineering teams, and mentor the team to strengthen platform excellence and operational resilience across the