Remote AKS Engineer, Azure Kubernetes Specialist

Pratt & Whitney; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is hiring an AKS Engineer to design, implement and support containerized platforms in the Azure cloud. The role emphasizes scalable microservices, secure clusters, and reliable operations in a remote US setting.

You will build and maintain Helm charts, IaC (Terraform, Bicep), and CI/CD pipelines, while collaborating with application teams and architects to ensure compliance and effective governance across environments.

Qualifications

• Typically requires: A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms; 3+ years hands‑on Azure experience with 2+ years supporting or managing production Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred).
• Understanding of container architecture, Docker, and orchestration fundamentals with knowledge of Azure networking, security, managed identities, and resource architecture.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps approaches (Flux, ArgoCD) with hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated deep, hands‑on daily experience administering and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows Server environments, including system configuration, monitoring, patching, and performance optimization and must have diagnostic skills across distributed systems, compute, networking, storage, and application layers.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain production and non‑production AKS clusters following enterprise standards.
• Manage all cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, scaling, node management, and workload integrations.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized workloads using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Implement and enforce AKS security controls including RBAC, Azure AD integration, image scanning, secrets management, and network security measures.
• Monitor workloads using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana, and other observability tools; proactively address performance and reliability issues.
• Partner with application teams and architects to design and support scalable microservices and containerized solutions.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, architecture patterns, and operational standards.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and support incident response for AKS and related cloud platform services.
• Support governance, compliance, and audit requirements for Kubernetes environments.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

Linux system administration

Windows Server administration

Security & compliance

Education

University degree or equivalent

Advanced degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD)

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

RTX is hiring an AKS Engineer to design, implement and support containerized platforms in the Azure cloud. The role emphasizes scalable microservices, secure clusters, and reliable operations in a remote US setting.

You will build and maintain Helm charts, IaC (Terraform, Bicep), and CI/CD pipelines, while collaborating with application teams and architects to ensure compliance and effective governance across environments.