Senior Kubernetes Administrator (AKS Azure Terraform)

Charlotte, VT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Kubernetes Administrator (AKS / Azure / Terraform)

Charlotte NC

6 Months

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Kubernetes Administrator with deep hands-on experience in administering and operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters in production environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing deploying securing scaling and troubleshooting AKS clusters leveraging Azure-native services and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). This role requires strong operational ownership an automation mindset and close collaboration with DevOps SRE and application teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications
Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience administering Kubernetes in production.
Deep expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Solid experience with Microsoft Azure (compute networking security).
Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes networking and cloud infrastructure.
Experience managing Linux-based systems.

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes & AKS Administration

Administer operate and maintain production-grade AKS clusters (single and multi-region).
Perform cluster lifecycle management: provisioning upgrades patching scaling and decommissioning.
Configure and manage node pools autoscaling (HPA/Cluster Autoscaler) taints tolerations and resource quotas.
Implement and manage Kubernetes networking (Azure CNI ingress controllers services DNS).
Troubleshoot cluster-level and workload-level issues (pods nodes networking storage performance).
Azure Platform Responsibilities

Design and manage AKS integrations with Azure services such as:
Azure Monitor / Log Analytics
Azure Load Balancer / Application Gateway / NGINX Ingress
Azure Key Vault
Azure Storage (Disk File Blob)
Azure Container Registry (ACR)
Ensure high availability resilience and disaster recovery for Kubernetes workloads.
Manage Azure IAM RBAC and managed identities for secure access.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Use Terraform to provision and manage:
AKS clusters
Networking (VNETs subnets)
Supporting Azure resources
Maintain reusable modular Terraform code following best practices.
Automate cluster operations and maintenance activities wherever possible.
Security & Compliance

Implement Kubernetes security best practices:
RBAC Network Policies Pod Security Standards
Secrets management (Key Vault integration)
Ensure secure container runtime and image practices.
Support compliance audit and governance requirements.
Monitoring Logging & Reliability

Set up and manage monitoring logging and alerting for AKS and workloads.
Perform capacity planning and cost optimization.
Participate in incident response root cause analysis and preventive actions.
Collaboration & Leadership

Work closely with DevOps SRE and application teams to support deployments.
Provide guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.
Contribute to operational documentation runbooks and best practices.
Preferred / Nice to Have

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions GitLab).
Knowledge of Helm Kustomize or similar Kubernetes packaging tools.
Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) or Azure certifications (AZ-104 AZ-305).
Experience with multi-cluster or hybrid Kubernetes environments.