Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer - AKS, Cloud Platform

Themesoft Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Themesoft Inc in Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AKS environments on Microsoft Azure. You will lead advanced L3 engineering and provide incident response for container platforms across dev, test, and production.

Strong automation and CI/CD experience are required. Responsibilities include building Helm-based deployments, securing clusters, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes administration, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, pods, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, RBAC, autoscaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Azure knowledge, including virtual networks, load balancers, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Azure Container Registry, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Experience with Helm, Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and enterprise CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Linux administration, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, and cloud networking.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working within ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and release management processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer highly available AKS clusters across development, test, and production environments.
• Provide L3 incident, problem, and root-cause support for Kubernetes, containers, networking, storage, security, and application deployment issues.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm-based deployment standards for containerized workloads.
• Configure cluster networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, private endpoints, service mesh, persistent storage, and Azure identity integration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID integration, secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
• Drive performance tuning, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and cost optimization.
• Develop operational runbooks, architecture documents, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, database, and service management teams; mentor L1/L2 engineers and lead technical escalations.

Skills

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

RBAC

Security

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

8+ years infra/cloud engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Azure CLI

Git

GitHub

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Themesoft Inc in Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AKS environments on Microsoft Azure. You will lead advanced L3 engineering and provide incident response for container platforms across dev, test, and production.

Strong automation and CI/CD experience are required. Responsibilities include building Helm-based deployments, securing clusters, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.