This is a Full Remote job, available in Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru.
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.
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.
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.
