Job Description

Title: Azure Containerization
Location:Noida, Chennai, Pune, Bangalore
Experience: Total experience -10 yrs+ , Relavent experience - 6 yrs+
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Roles & Responsibilities:

• Resolve critical and complex technical issues in a 24x7x365 global support delivery team. Combine technical expertise and customer requirements to solve complex business challenges.
• Ability to quickly identify customer issues to specific Azure AKS and being able to conduct in-depth diagnostics on Azure AKS platform and services.
• Work with Architects to deliver solutions and deploy new capabilities in customer environment.
• Analyse and eliminate top issues impacting customer experience.
• Build automation to solve customer problems and develop scripts to automate troubleshooting and diagnostics activities.
• Create documentation (SOP's & TSG's) to help L1/L2 teams to support operations.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer scenarios that span across multiple Azure services
• Act as a technical escalation point within the team
• Work with architecture team on process improvement and strategic initiatives

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical position and a minimum of 2 years of experience as an Azure AKS Engineer

• Setup, maintain, optimize, and secure Kubernetes clusters on MS Azure Cloud

• Knowledge of different Ingress and Egress Network Patterns for AKS

• Deep and Hand-On knowledge of Kubernetes upgrades, maintenance, scale operations and backup

• Knowledge of Persistence Storage in AKS and integration of Azure Storage with AKS

• Setup and maintain Containers, Container availability, Auto-Scalability, Storage Management, DNS, Proxy Setup and maintain Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancers on MS Azure Cloud

• Hand-on experience on integrating ACR with AKS

• Build and manage backup, restore, and DR activities

• Implement a container build strategy

• Build & support existing infrastructure, whilst planning & implementing new solutions Designing & implementing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)

• Good in-depth knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, must use terminal much, have written any YAML code for Azure pipelines

• Should have a lot of experience creating and running cloud-based infrastructure using Kubernetes & ARM templates, familiar with Azure based tools & terminology

• Must Have working experience with Terraform, Helm, Istio, Prometheus

• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure (Management groups, Azure policies, AKS, key vault, Application Insights, Application Gateway)

• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure DevOps Tools (Pipelines, Release pipelines, Azure DevOps Boards)

• Experience with Container platforms and Cloud Services using Identity, Storage, Compute, Automation, Disaster Recovery (Kubernetes, Helm, Istio)

• Hands-On Experience on working with Private Networks, VPN and configuring Application proxies and load balancers for AKS and other Azure Services

• Automation experience using Terraform, ARM Template, Powershell or other similar tools

• Hands on experience with Cloud Application Deployment patterns like Blue-Green, Canary or in a larger context of Service Mesh, Helm, K8 Operators, etc

• Good knowledge of Kubernetes design patterns, inclusive of Observability/ Telemetry stacks.

• Integration of Azure Monitor with AKS and Capturing / Reading logs using Kusto Queries

• Good understanding of CIS Best Practices for Hardening OS