Azure Kubernetes Engineer

Themesoft Inc; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Themesoft Inc in Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AKS environments on Microsoft Azure. You will lead advanced L3 engineering and provide incident response for container platforms across dev, test, and production.

Strong automation and CI/CD experience are required. Responsibilities include building Helm-based deployments, securing clusters, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Formación

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes administration, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, pods, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, RBAC, autoscaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Azure knowledge, including virtual networks, load balancers, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Azure Container Registry, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Experience with Helm, Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and enterprise CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Linux administration, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, and cloud networking.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working within ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and release management processes.

Responsabilidades

• Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer highly available AKS clusters across development, test, and production environments.
• Provide L3 incident, problem, and root-cause support for Kubernetes, containers, networking, storage, security, and application deployment issues.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm-based deployment standards for containerized workloads.
• Configure cluster networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, private endpoints, service mesh, persistent storage, and Azure identity integration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID integration, secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
• Drive performance tuning, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and cost optimization.
• Develop operational runbooks, architecture documents, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, database, and service management teams; mentor L1/L2 engineers and lead technical escalations.

Conocimientos

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

RBAC

Security

Monitoring

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

8+ years infra/cloud engineering experience

Herramientas

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Azure CLI

Git

GitHub

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Descripción del empleo

We are seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing advanced L3 engineering and operational support for enterprise container platforms hosted on Microsoft Azure, with a focus on designing, deploying, securing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer highly available AKS clusters across development, test, and production environments.
• Provide L3 incident, problem, and root-cause support for Kubernetes, containers, networking, storage, security, and application deployment issues.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm-based deployment standards for containerized workloads.
• Configure cluster networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, private endpoints, service mesh, persistent storage, and Azure identity integration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID integration, secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
• Drive performance tuning, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and cost optimization.
• Develop operational runbooks, architecture documents, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, database, and service management teams; mentor L1/L2 engineers and lead technical escalations.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes administration, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, pods, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, RBAC, autoscaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Azure knowledge, including virtual networks, load balancers, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Azure Container Registry, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Experience with Helm, Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and enterprise CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Linux administration, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, and cloud networking.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working within ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and release management processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on Kubernetes and Azure experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting business-critical production environments in an enterprise setting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, service mesh technologies, and policy tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, enterprise security standards, and regulated environments.

Work Requirements

• Primary work location: Houston, Texas.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and support planned after-hours maintenance or critical incidents.
• Ability to work collaboratively with customer and global delivery teams across time zones.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Themesoft Inc is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.