Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer - AKS Specialist (Onsite)

Danta Technologies; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 58,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Major holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Danta Technologies seeks an Azure Kubernetes Engineer to deliver advanced engineering and operational support for enterprise AKS environments in Houston. You will design, deploy, secure, troubleshoot, and optimize AKS clusters while serving as the escalation point for complex platform and application issues.

The role requires 8+ years in infrastructure/cloud engineering with 4+ years in Kubernetes/Azure, and hands‑on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including at least 4 years of hands‑on Kubernetes and Azure experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting business‑critical production environments in an enterprise setting.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer AKS clusters across environments.
• Provide L3 incident, problem, and root‑cause support for Kubernetes and related tech.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm deployment standards for containerized workloads.
• Configure cluster networking, ingress, DNS, private endpoints, service mesh, and Azure identity integration.
• Establish monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Drive security controls, RBAC, identity integration, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Lead performance tuning, resiliency, backup, DR, patching, and cost optimization.
• Develop operational runbooks, architecture docs, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with multiple teams; mentor junior engineers and lead escalations.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes administration

Docker

container orchestration

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Linux administration

PowerShell/Bash/Python

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Kubernetes monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Helm

Kubernetes

Docker

Argo CD

Flux

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Prometheus

Azure Container Registry

Job description

Danta Technologies seeks an Azure Kubernetes Engineer to deliver advanced engineering and operational support for enterprise AKS environments in Houston. You will design, deploy, secure, troubleshoot, and optimize AKS clusters while serving as the escalation point for complex platform and application issues.

The role requires 8+ years in infrastructure/cloud engineering with 4+ years in Kubernetes/Azure, and hands‑on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.