Senior AKS Platform Architect: Multi-Region, GitOps, Remote

Stellent IT LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Stellent IT LLC in the United States seeks an experienced AKS / Platform Architect to design, implement, and manage Kubernetes-based platform solutions on Azure Kubernetes Service. You will drive multi-region deployments and automation.

The role emphasizes GitOps, ingress management, identity and access control, and observability, with a focus on enabling developer productivity and operational excellence. You will provide technical leadership and mentor platform teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of Kubernetes and container platform architecture experience.
• Experience designing multi-region AKS deployments with DR strategies.
• Strong GitOps implementation and automation.
• Expertise in ingress, IAM, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect multi-region AKS solutions aligned with availability and DR requirements.
• Implement and manage GitOps workflows for infra and app deployment automation.
• Configure and manage ingress controllers and load balancers for secure traffic routing.
• Design IAM using Azure AD, RBAC, and pod identities.
• Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Architect platform services to boost developer productivity and ops excellence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable platform architecture.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineering teams.

Skills

Multi-region AKS

GitOps

Ingress controllers

Azure AD RBAC

Observability

CKA/CKAD

Kubernetes architecture

Tools

Flux

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Stellent IT LLC in the United States seeks an experienced AKS / Platform Architect to design, implement, and manage Kubernetes-based platform solutions on Azure Kubernetes Service. You will drive multi-region deployments and automation.

The role emphasizes GitOps, ingress management, identity and access control, and observability, with a focus on enabling developer productivity and operational excellence. You will provide technical leadership and mentor platform teams.