Senior Azure/Kubernetes DevOps Engineer (AI-Driven Ops)

Intaker; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare: Medical, dental, andVision

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO and holidays

AI-enabled tooling access

Team-building events

Job summary

Intaker is seeking a hands-on DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to own our Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, AKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. You will work closely with software and QA engineers to ship changes safely in a high-autonomy senior IC role.

You thrive on eliminating toil, scaling Kubernetes, and driving AI-driven automation to improve reliability, security, and incident response across production systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or similar production-focused role.
• Advanced Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions experience with repo administration.
• Experience with Grafana/Loki and observability tooling; ability to troubleshoot performance.
• Strong RBAC/secrets/least-privilege fundamentals and cloud security practices.
• Proven ownership of production deployments and incident response end-to-end.
• Clear written communication and ability to work independently while prioritizing risk.

Responsibilities

• Cloud & Kubernetes ownership: operate, scale, and optimize production AKS and Azure infra for uptime.
• CI/CD & automation: build release pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions; manage permissions and secrets.
• Observability & incident response: improve logging, set alerts, and coordinate incident response on call.
• Security & compliance: enforce least-privilege access and manage Kubernetes RBAC and cloud permissions.
• Database support: assist Azure SQL connectivity, performance, backup and recovery.
• Enable engineering teams: help deploy new services safely; maintain runbooks and recovery plans.
• Innovation: evaluate and implement AI-powered tools to boost developer productivity.

Skills

Infrastructure ownership

Incident response

Security fundamentals

Technical communication

Risk prioritization

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Grafana Loki

OpenTelemetry

KeyVault

Job description

Intaker is seeking a hands-on DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to own our Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, AKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. You will work closely with software and QA engineers to ship changes safely in a high-autonomy senior IC role.

You thrive on eliminating toil, scaling Kubernetes, and driving AI-driven automation to improve reliability, security, and incident response across production systems.