
Azure Platform Engineer
Thaloz
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- 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)
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Hard Skills & Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)CI/CDGitHubTerraformFluxDockerKubernetesHorizontal Pod AutoscalerCluster AutoscalerAzure CLI