Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer (AKS)

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 87,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC is seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AKS environments on Microsoft Azure. This role will operate across development, test, and production, escalating complex platform issues and driving resilience, security, and cost optimization.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, implement RBAC and Entra ID integration, and mentor L1/L2 engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable container

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, incl. 4+ years on Kubernetes/Azure
• Hands-on design, deployment, and operations experience for enterprise AKS
• Experience supporting production environments with ITIL-style processes

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer AKS clusters across environments
• Provide L3 incident, problem, and root-cause analysis for Kubernetes issues
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm-based deployment standards
• Configure cluster networking, ingress, DNS, private endpoints, and service mesh
• Establish monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana
• Drives security controls: RBAC, Entra ID integration, secrets mgmt, image scanning
• Lead technical escalations and mentor L1/L2 engineers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across time zones

Skills

AKS administration

Kubernetes architecture

Azure networking

DevOps collaboration

Linux administration

Monitoring and observability

Incident handling

ITIL processes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Azure CLI

Helm

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC is seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AKS environments on Microsoft Azure. This role will operate across development, test, and production, escalating complex platform issues and driving resilience, security, and cost optimization.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, implement RBAC and Entra ID integration, and mentor L1/L2 engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable container