AKS Cloud Architect: Terraform & Production-Ready Clusters

MethodHub; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MethodHub in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on AKS Cloud Architect with advanced Terraform scripting to design, provision, deploy, secure, and harden Azure Kubernetes Service environments for enterprise workloads. You will drive infrastructure as code and manage multi-environment deployments across Development, QA, and Production.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, private networking, Ent ra ID integration, and RBAC, ensuring ongoing security, resilience, and scalable performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AKS cloud architecture with Terraform scripting experience.
• Ability to design, provision, deploy, secure, and harden AKS environments for enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities

• Write production-grade Terraform scripts and modularize infrastructure.
• Provision AKS clusters using Azure IaC.
• Manage multiple environments: Development, QA, UAT, Production.
• Automate deployment through CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure Kubernetes Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets.
• Secure AKS with private networking, Entra ID, and least-privilege RBAC.
• Configure network policies, autoscaling, and rollback strategies.
• Establish disaster recovery, backups, and upgrade procedures.
• Perform load testing and capacity planning for production traffic.
• Set up centralized monitoring, alerts, and logging.

Skills

AKS

Terraform scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Security

Tools

Azure

Helm

ACR

Git

Job description

MethodHub in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on AKS Cloud Architect with advanced Terraform scripting to design, provision, deploy, secure, and harden Azure Kubernetes Service environments for enterprise workloads. You will drive infrastructure as code and manage multi-environment deployments across Development, QA, and Production.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, private networking, Ent ra ID integration, and RBAC, ensuring ongoing security, resilience, and scalable performance.