Azure Platform Engineer at resilientco

<div>We are seeking a senior Azure Platform Engineer to lead design, deployment, and operation of production workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role is critical for enabling scalable, secure microservices and accelerating time-to-market through repeatable AKS bootstrapping, CI/CD enablement, and platform automation.<br>The engineer will work hands-on across AKS cluster administration, deployment pipelines, security enforcement, observability, and automation templates. This is an opportunity to shape a Platform-as-a-Service offering, improve operational maturity, and drive GitOps-based delivery for event-driven microservices.</div> Responsibilities • Design, deploy, and operate workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to meet security, resilience, and performance goals • Lead AKS bootstrapping, cluster/node/pod configuration, and operational support activities • Build automated deployment templates for customers to provision AKS instances • Implement and maintain CI/CD and GitHub build/release pipelines for Dev, Stage, and Production environments • Configure autoscaling (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, Cluster Autoscaler) and integrate Azure Container Instance (ACI) where appropriate • Implement Pod security policies, node-to-node encryption, and enforce NIST-aligned security controls when deploying container images • Integrate AKS logs (application, event, cluster, user activity, diagnostics) into Azure Event Hub or Storage and enable real-time monitoring • Manage authentication and authorization for cluster access using managed identities, service principals, certificates, and secrets • Deploy and manage HTTPS Ingress controllers and TLS certificate management for Kubernetes services • Use governance and scanning tools to monitor images, runtime, vulnerabilities, registries, and hosts Requirements • 3-4 years of hands-on container deployment experience on Azure AKS • 7+ years working with microservices, with focus on event-based services, scalability, and security • 4+ years of Azure engineering experience designing, developing, and deploying Azure cloud solutions • Proven experience developing and implementing AKS-hosted solutions and Kubernetes build pipelines • 2+ years building automation/CD pipelines with Terraform and Flux following GitOps practices • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes concepts: pods, nodes, ConfigMaps, selectors, services • Experience deploying and configuring HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and integrating Azure Container Instance (ACI) • Experience deploying Linux and/or Windows Kubernetes clusters from Azure CLI and using AKS for CI/CD runtime • Working knowledge of NIST security policies and standards, FedRAMP, CSA, or ISO cloud/container standards • Proficient with code versioning tools such as GitHub • Experience pulling images from private Azure Container Registry (ACR) and deploying to AKS • Familiarity with API standards (Swagger, REST) and database technologies mentioned (Azure SQL Server, MongoDb, PostgreSQL) Nice to have • Hands-on knowledge of Istio, Envoy, Helm, Kustomize, Flux, Crossplane • Experience with governance and security tools such as Arnica, Wiz, SonarQube • Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and Dynatrace • Experience with Kusto query language or integrating logs into Azure monitoring systems • Background working in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or GitOps-based development lifecycles • Terraform scripting • YAML • Shell scripting for Azure CLI automation