Azure Platform Ops Engineer - AKS & Automation

Motion Recruitment; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Systems Operations Engineer to support enterprise-scale Azure platforms across Chandler, AZ, Dallas, TX, or Charlotte, NC—hybrid with 3+ onsite days. You’ll own automation, observability, and incident response in Azure environments, including AKS, ASE, and Landing Zones, while collaborating with leadership on high-impact cloud initiatives.

The role emphasizes building self-service capabilities, improving platform reliability, and reducing toil.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with public cloud and on-premises technologies.
• 4+ years of experience supporting Linux environments.
• 3+ years of experience with AKS, ASE, and Azure Landing Zones.
• 3+ years of Terraform and GitHub.
• 3+ years of Python experience.
• 1+ years of experience with LLMs, prompting and Conversational AI, Agentic AI, MCP.
• 2+ years of Grafana, KQL, and JQL.
• Experience supporting production enterprise Azure environments.
• Strong incident response, troubleshooting, and operational support experience.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to support platform stability, incident management, change management, automation, documentation, and capacity planning.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation and lead escalations and major incident support.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain large-scale Azure platforms, including AKS and ASE environments.
• Provide L2/L3 operational support and lead escalations and major incident response.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, platform stability, and system availability.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions to reduce manual work.
• Support application migrations and enterprise cloud platform initiatives.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative measures.
• Participate in incident, change, and release management processes.
• Identify operational gaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, vendors, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership.
• Maintain technical documentation and support capacity planning and day-to-day operational oversight.
• Grafana / KQL / JQL / Observability & Monitoring.
• LLMs / Conversational AI / Agentic AI / MCP.
• ServiceNow / Jira.

Skills

AKS

ASE

Terraform

Python

LLMs

Grafana

JQL

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

OpenShift

Jira

ServiceNow

Prometheus

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Systems Operations Engineer to support enterprise-scale Azure platforms across Chandler, AZ, Dallas, TX, or Charlotte, NC—hybrid with 3+ onsite days. You’ll own automation, observability, and incident response in Azure environments, including AKS, ASE, and Landing Zones, while collaborating with leadership on high-impact cloud initiatives.

The role emphasizes building self-service capabilities, improving platform reliability, and reducing toil.