Design, implementation and ongoing enhancement of the Azure cloud architecture with a focus on AKS, networking and security
Development of reusable, documented Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform, Ansible) and design and operation of multi-stage CI/CD pipelines
Operation and hardening of Kubernetes workloads including certificate management, Ingress, secrets and upgrades
Implementation and operation of monitoring and observability solutions and analysis of performance and stability issues in production
Advising executive management and technical teams on architecture, security and cost optimization, including technical coordination with customer stakeholders
Maintaining architecture documentation and runbooks and, prospectively, integrating Azure OpenAI/AI services into operational processes

Several years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure as the primary cloud platform (minimum 4 years)
Solid practical experience in building, operating and hardening AKS (Helm, Ingress, TLS, upgrades)
Comprehensive knowledge of Azure networking (VNETs, subnets, NSGs, peering, VPN, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints)
Confident use of core Azure services such as Storage, SQL, Key Vault, Managed Identity, Event Hub, Service Bus, Data Factory and API Management
Production experience with Terraform and Ansible as well as CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
Experience with monitoring/observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) and container
and GitOps workflows (Docker, Argo CD, Kustomize)
Knowledge of security hardening (Zero Trust, Entra ID, OAuth2, RBAC in AKS)
Basic knowledge of Spring Boot/Java microservices, Kafka/event streaming and REST API design is a plus

Senior Azure Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer

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