Remote AKS Engineer — Cloud Kubernetes & CI/CD Mastery

RTX Corporate; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking an AKS Engineer to design, implement, and support containerized platforms in the Azure cloud. This remote, senior individual contributor role focuses on scalable, secure Kubernetes solutions with a strong emphasis on reliability and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with application teams, build CI/CD pipelines, and enforce security controls while maintaining documentation and runbooks. This full‑time remote position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience or 5+ years with an advanced degree.
• 5+ years cloud platform, 3+ years Azure with 2+ years AKS.
• Knowledge of Docker, container architecture, and orchestration.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep and GitOps (Flux/ArgoCD).
• Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration.

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

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Docker

Linux

Windows Server

Education

University degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

RTX is seeking an AKS Engineer to design, implement, and support containerized platforms in the Azure cloud. This remote, senior individual contributor role focuses on scalable, secure Kubernetes solutions with a strong emphasis on reliability and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with application teams, build CI/CD pipelines, and enforce security controls while maintaining documentation and runbooks. This full‑time remote position offers competitive compensation and benefits.