Job Summary :

We are seeking a highly experienced Platform Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Infrastructure as Code, automation, and observability, with a strong focus on reliability and operational excellence. This role combines software engineering and infrastructure skills to ensure resilient platforms, frictionless deployments, and a strong developer experience.

Must-Have Skills :

- 10+ years of experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles with production ownership.

- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services (networking, compute, storage, security, identity).

- Expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - cluster design, administration, troubleshooting, and scaling.

- Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem tools (ingress controllers, Helm, etc.).

- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, reusable patterns).

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred; GitHub Actions/Jenkins acceptable).

- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, and/or Bash for automation and tooling.

- Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals, networking concepts, and distributed systems.

- Proven experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and leading production support.

- Hands-on experience implementing observability (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) for platforms and services.

Good to Have Skills :

- Experience designing and operating multi-region, highly available architectures on Azure.

- Knowledge of service mesh, ingress, and traffic management patterns in Kubernetes (e.g., Istio, NGINX, API gateways).

- Experience with GitOps practices and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).

- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks in enterprise environments.

- Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305, or Kubernetes certifications like CKA/CKAD).

- Experience improving developer experience through self-service platforms, templates, and golden paths.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Platform Engineering & Azure Infrastructure

- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure for production workloads.

- Architect, provision, and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, including cluster upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage Azure resources consistently and repeatably.

- Design and implement multi-region, highly available architectures leveraging native Azure services and best practices.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration (AKS Focus) :

- Deploy, manage, and optimize AKS clusters, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

- Enforce Kubernetes best practices including RBAC, network policies, pod security, resource limits/requests, and node management.

- Manage containerized workloads using Docker, including image build, optimization, and registry management.

- Troubleshoot cluster performance, networking, and workload issues across pods, services, and ingress/egress paths.

Reliability & Operations :

- Lead incident response for platform-related issues, including on-call participation, triage, mitigation, and communication.

- Conduct post-incident reviews and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve platform reliability.

- Implement and continuously improve observability for platform components (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).

- Ensure high availability, minimal downtime, and scalability for platform services through proactive capacity and reliability planning.

Automation & DevOps :

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments (preferably using Azure DevOps).

- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, and operational runbooks to reduce manual effort and errors.

- Implement and evolve self-service platform capabilities for development teams (templates, pipelines, standardized environments).

- Work closely with development and security teams to integrate DevOps and SRE best practices across the lifecycle.

Security & Governance :

- Implement Azure security best practices, including Managed Identities, Key Vault, RBAC, and network security controls.

- Secure AKS clusters using network policies, pod identity, secrets management, and least-privilege access controls.

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and audit requirements across the platform.

- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to address vulnerabilities, harden configurations, and maintain secure baselines.