Job Description
Job Title: Azure Kubernetes Engineer
Location: Houston, TX
Mode : Contract (6+ Months) Onsite from Day 1
Job Description:
The Azure Kubernetes Engineer L3 will provide advanced engineering and operational support for enterprise container platforms hosted on Microsoft Azure. The role is responsible for designing, deploying, securing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments while serving as the escalation point for complex platform and application issues.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Houston, TX
Mode : Contract (6+ Months) Onsite from Day 1
Job Description:
The Azure Kubernetes Engineer L3 will provide advanced engineering and operational support for enterprise container platforms hosted on Microsoft Azure. The role is responsible for designing, deploying, securing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments while serving as the escalation point for complex platform and application issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, upgrade, and administer highly available AKS clusters across development, test, and production environments.
- Provide L3 incident, problem, and root-cause support for Kubernetes, containers, networking, storage, security, and application deployment issues.
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Helm-based deployment standards for containerized workloads.
- Configure cluster networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, private endpoints, service mesh, persistent storage, and Azure identity integration.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID integration, secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
- Drive performance tuning, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and cost optimization.
- Develop operational runbooks, architecture documents, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
- Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, database, and service management teams; mentor L1/L2 engineers and lead technical escalations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes administration, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, pods, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, RBAC, autoscaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Azure knowledge, including virtual networks, load balancers, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Azure Container Registry, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Azure CLI.
- Experience with Helm, Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and enterprise CI/CD practices.
- Experience with Linux administration, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, and cloud networking.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience working within ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on Kubernetes and Azure experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting business-critical production environments in an enterprise setting.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
- Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, service mesh technologies, and policy tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper.
- Experience with hybrid cloud, enterprise security standards, and regulated environments.
- Primary work location: Houston, Texas.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and support planned after-hours maintenance or critical incidents.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, TX |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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