Azure DevOps & Kubernetes SRE Engineer

Korn Ferry Group; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is looking for an Azure DevOps / Systems Engineer - Kubernetes (AKS)/SRE in Raleigh, NC to own container hosting, manage AKS clusters, and ensure reliable deployments within the Microsoft stack.

You will collaborate to evolve the platform toward Azure Container Apps, configure ARM/Bicep templates, monitor via Azure Monitor, and participate in incident response and release validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• 3+ years in systems or cloud engineering, Azure preferred.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Experience deploying via ARM and/or Bicep.
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own and support container hosting using AKS—clusters, nodes, deployment patterns, routing, and service communication.
• Investigate Kubernetes issues such as failed pods, crash loops, unhealthy workloads, and failed deployments.
• Apply SRE practices to improve reliability, availability, performance, and operations.
• Monitor Azure environments and troubleshoot with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Configure and maintain basic alerts for availability, pod issues, and infrastructure events.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and problem investigation.
• Support CI/CD using Azure DevOps—Microsoft stack with little to no third-party tools.
• Assist deployments, maintenance, rollbacks, and release validation.
• Support Azure networking activities (VNets, subnets, DNS, firewall rules, Front Door, App Gateway, WAF).
• Build and maintain ARM/Bicep templates for deployment and provisioning.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve environment/cluster/service performance issues.
• Document solutions, patterns, and operational procedures.

Skills

AKS / Kubernetes

Azure Platform

Azure DevOps

SaaS Hosting

ARM / Bicep

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ARM

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

Korn Ferry is looking for an Azure DevOps / Systems Engineer - Kubernetes (AKS)/SRE in Raleigh, NC to own container hosting, manage AKS clusters, and ensure reliable deployments within the Microsoft stack.

You will collaborate to evolve the platform toward Azure Container Apps, configure ARM/Bicep templates, monitor via Azure Monitor, and participate in incident response and release validation.