Cloud Developer

Role and Responsibilities:

As a Cloud Developer your primary responsibilities will be to design deploy and maintain containerized applications on the Azure Kubernetes Service platform. Maintain deployment procedures update secret certificates and other Kubernetes administrational duties. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure that applications and systems are scalable reliable and secure.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Designing AKS-based solutions: You will be responsible for designing containerized solutions that meet business requirements and adhere to best practices.

This will involve creating high-level and low-level designs identifying appropriate Kubernetes objects and creating architecture diagrams.

Deploying containerized applications: You will be responsible for deploying containerized applications on AKS.

This will involve creating and managing Kubernetes objects updating YAML files configuring networking and ensuring high availability.

Maintaining AKS-based solutions: You will be responsible for maintaining the solutions you have deployed. This will involve monitoring systems troubleshooting issues and optimizing performance.

Update DNS certificates for all AKS domains and capable of creating certificate signing requests.

Update secrets for service principals that are associated with AKS every 6 months.

Working with cross-functional teams: You will collaborate with developers architects and project managers to ensure that solutions are delivered on time within budget and meet business requirements.

Ensuring security and compliance: You will be responsible for ensuring that solutions are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations.

This will involve implementing security controls performing vulnerability assessments and creating documentation.

Continuously learning and improving: You will stay up to date with AKS services and best practices and continuously improve your skills and knowledge through training and certification programs.

Expected to review upcoming Kubernetes releases and help with version upgrades while working with the infrastructure team.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.

At least 3 years of experience in AKS or a related Kubernetes solution.

Strong knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service.

End-to-end Implementation of the Kubernetes architecture - installation configuration hardening networking etc.

Configuring Kubernetes auto provisioning and auto scaling of CI/CD job/build agents/runners/node.

Experience designing and deploying containerized applications on Kubernetes.

Sound knowledge on Azure policies.

Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.

Experience with automation tools such as Helm Kustomize Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Experience with GitOps tools such as Flux CD or Argo CD.

Strong grasp of domain-specific architectural patterns and emerging technologies

Familiarity with infrastructure and network design as well as compute and storage architecture

Understanding of modern web and mobile application architectures frameworks and design best practices

Ability to evaluate and apply new technologies to real-world solutions within scalable systems

Understanding of security and compliance best practices.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

Kubernetes certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) are preferred.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 preferred.

Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for diagnostics and telemetry analysis in Azure environments

Familiarity with Java and Java Spring projects is preferred but not required.

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