As a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, you will play a crucial role in managing and maintaining our cloud/on Prem setups ensuring reliability, security, performance and optimizing scalability for our clients. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deploy, monitor, and optimize our containerized applications and services, all while adhering to best practices and industry standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Azure AKS Management:

• Provision, configure, and manage Azure AKS clusters to support our containerized applications.
• Monitor cluster performance, scaling, and health, and adjust as needed.
• Administration in Network, MFA, SSO, Storage, NSG, Traffic Manager, ACR etc.
• Knowledge in Gloomesh, istio, Oracle cloud, AWS is a big plus.
• Upgrades and patching.
• Experience in Cloud migration

Openshift Cloud Management:

• Experience in Openshift container platform

On-premises/Hybrid:

• Experience with virtualization technologies like VMware or Hyper-V
• Provide hands-on support for the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of on-premises infrastructure, including servers, networking equipment and storage systems.
• Experience in micro segmentation (network), VPN tunnel, ADDS, DMZ, firewall

• LINUX/UNIX administration
• Maintenance/patching

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Pulumi, Terraform or ARM templates to automate AKS provisioning and configuration.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Typescript, Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation tasks.

Container Orchestration:

• Manage container orchestration using Kubernetes, including pod deployment, scaling, and network configurations.
• Experience in templating and deploying HELM packages.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to containers and container orchestration.
• Experience working on MongoDB, Redis, Timescale, Influx etc.

Monitoring and Logging:

• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions for AKS clusters using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo or similar tools.
• Configure and maintain centralized log management systems to ensure visibility into application performance.
• Experience in any SIEM tool (Azure Sentinel, Splunk etc.)
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide timely resolution to production incidents.

Security:

• Implement security best practices and policies for AKS, including network policies, RBAC, and container image scanning.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best security practices.

CI/CD Integration:

• Integrate Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipeline) for automated application deployment and updates.
• Experience in ARGO CD/Flux
• Experience in GitOps

Backup and Disaster Recovery:

• Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery plans for AKS clusters to ensure data integrity and high availability.
• Experience in concepts of DR/regional pairing.

Performance Optimization:

• Continuously optimize AKS resources to ensure efficient resource utilization, cost-effectiveness, and high-performance applications.

Documentation:

• Create and maintain detailed documentation of AKS configurations, processes, and best practices.