Key Responsibilities

1. AKS Platform Ownership (Kubernetes Management)

- Design, provision, and manage

AKS clusters

: node pools, autoscaling, upgrades, backup/restore, and lifecycle operations.

1. Build &

- Deploy Expert (CI/CD &
- GitOps)

- Own build and deployment pipelines using

Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions

; standardize

Helm charts

, artifacts, and implement

GitOps with Argo CD or Flux.

1. Azure Application Gateway (WAF) &

- Ingress

- Configure and manage

Azure Application Gateway with

WAF

; integrate

AGIC with AKS for L7 routing, SSL/TLS termination, and certificate lifecycle via

Key Vault

.

1. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

- Develop and maintain
Terraform modules for AKS, Application Gateway, ACR, networking, and related Azure resources.

- Ensure reusable, version-controlled, and automated deployments.

1. Container Platform Standards





- Define and enforce standards for namespaces, resource quotas, HPA/Cluster Autoscaler

, pod disruption budgets, and secure base images.

1. Release Strategies &

- Reliability

- Implement blue/green, canary deployments

, and rollback strategies; ensure high availability and resilience for production workloads.

1. Troubleshooting &

- L3 Support

- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for

AKS workloads, ingress/routing issues, build/deploy failures

, and performance bottlenecks.

1. Collaboration, Documentation &

- Mentorship

- Work closely with application teams for AKS onboarding; create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and mentor engineers on Kubernetes and Terraform best practices.

📌 Azure Cloud Engineer (Hyderabad)
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