Azure Reliability Engineer: Terraform & AKS Expert

GAP Solutions, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GAP Solutions, Inc. seeks a Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Azure cloud environments.

You will design, review, and troubleshoot infrastructure as code using Terraform and collaborate with platform engineers, developers, and security teams. The role focuses on automating cloud operations, improving Kubernetes operations, and building monitoring and runbooks to support high availability of data analytics services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, or similar roles.
• 2+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Azure experience.
• 2+ years of hands‑on Terraform expertise to design reusable modules, manage state, troubleshoot failures, and maintain production infrastructure.
• Experience administering/supporting Kubernetes (preferably AKS).
• Experience supporting cloud‑hosted systems and automating cloud operations.
• Knowledge of cloud networking concepts and troubleshooting.
• Possession of strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to work on-site in Atlanta, GA or the Washington D.C. metro‑area.
• Ability to obtain/maintain Public Trust/Suitability clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Must be U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot production Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
• Support reliability, performance, and availability of workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and application reliability issues.
• Automate cloud operations to reduce manual work and improve consistency.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to enhance deployment and incident response practices.
• Implement and refine monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational reporting.
• Identify reliability risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture and processes.
• Document infrastructure, procedures, troubleshooting guidance, and operational runbooks.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps practices

Kubernetes expertise

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

On-site work

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

AKS

Grafana/Prometheus

Power BI

Job description

GAP Solutions, Inc. seeks a Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Azure cloud environments.

You will design, review, and troubleshoot infrastructure as code using Terraform and collaborate with platform engineers, developers, and security teams. The role focuses on automating cloud operations, improving Kubernetes operations, and building monitoring and runbooks to support high availability of data analytics services.