AKS DevOps Engineer

Job Title: AKS DevOps Engineer

Location-Bangalore

Experience-5+Years

Position Overview:
As part of the Azure transformation program, the Private Cloud Operations department is preparing to provide operational support for several key components of the platform. As an AKS DevSecOps Engineer within the new Public Cloud Operations team, you will be responsible for managing and maintaining Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.

This role is essential to ensure the stability, performance, and security of our containerized solutions, deployed by multiple teams in various environments. You will work closely with platform architects, the Public Cloud CCoE, CI/CD teams, middleware, and application teams to maintain a robust and scalable AKS infrastructure.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Provisioning and Configuration

You provision and configure AKS clusters, including networking, node pools, and integration with Azure services.

You deploy and manage Service Mesh solutions while enabling control plane metrics for observability and traffic management.

You implement and maintain security policies and access control (RBAC) using Azure RBAC and Kubernetes RBAC, with regular security testing.

You support application deployment and testing, including load testing, namespace configuration, and CI/CD integration.

You automate infrastructure and ensure compliance through Infrastructure as Code and operational standards.

Operations and Support

You manage and optimize AKS cluster resources, identities, and certificates to ensure secure and efficient operations.

You monitor service levels, regional quotas, and cluster-specific limits to guarantee availability and anticipate scaling needs.

You perform regular updates on AKS clusters and apply security patches.

You implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to protect workloads and ensure business continuity.

You provide operational support, including network management, creating tickets with Microsoft support, and assisting end users.

You document and share lessons learned for continuous improvement.

On-call Service

You monitor and optimize costs related to shared AKS clusters.

Security and compliance

You maintain and strengthen the security posture of AKS clusters by identifying vulnerabilities, hardening configurations, and applying best practices.

You ensure compliance with policies through their application and remediation using Azure Policy and native Kubernetes tools.

You leverage recommendations from Azure Advisor and Microsoft Defender for Cloud to improve security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Preferred skills:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Solid experience in operational analysis within complex IT environments.

Practical experience with IT infrastructure components (e.g., OpenShift & OpenStack containers), network, and platforms.

Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud fundamentals (Full learning path).

Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Service Mesh technologies (e.g., Istio), API gateways.

Knowledge of operating systems.

General knowledge of hybrid infrastructure and architecture (servers, VMs, disks, storage, LAN, clustering, etc.).

You are continuously learning and ready to undertake the necessary Microsoft Azure training to succeed in your mission.

You have an analytical and assertive mindset.

You are optimistic, solution-oriented, creative, and open-minded.

You naturally have a sense of customer service.

You are a good team player.

A good command of English is mandatory (spoken and written).

Regards,

Infosys BPM Recruitment team