Platform Engineer (SRE)

JD Platform Engineer (SRE)

Experience:10+ years in SRE / DevOps / PlatformEngineering

Work Mode:Remote

PositionType: Contract

Job Summary

We areseeking a highly experienced Platform Engineer Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Infrastructure as Code, automation, and observability, with a strong focus on reliability and operational excellence. This role combines software engineering and infrastructure skills to ensure resilient platforms, frictionless deployments, and a strong developer experience.

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years of experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles with production ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services (networking,compute, storage, security, identity).
• Expertisein Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster design, administration, troubleshooting, and scaling.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem tools (ingress controllers, Helm, etc.).
• Proficiencyin Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, reusable patterns).
• Experience building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred; GitHub Actions/Jenkins acceptable).
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, and/or Bash for automation and tooling.
• Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals, networking concepts, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and leading production support.
• Hands-on experience implementing observability (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) for platforms and services.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience designing andoperatingmulti-region,highly availablearchitecturesonAzure.
• Knowledge of service mesh, ingress, and traffic management patterns in Kubernetes (e.g., Istio, NGINX, API gateways).
• Experience withGitOpspractices and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks in enterprise environments.
• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305, or Kubernetes certifications like CKA/CKAD).
• Experience improving developer experience through self-service platforms, templates, and golden paths.

Roles & Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Azure Infrastructure

• Design, build, andmaintainsecure, scalable, cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure for production workloads.
• Architect, provision, and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, including cluster upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage Azure resources consistently and repeatably.
• Design and implement multi-region,highly availablearchitecturesleveragingnative Azure services and best practices.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration (AKS Focus)

• Deploy, manage, andoptimizeAKS clusters, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Enforce Kubernetes best practices including RBAC, network policies, pod security, resource limits/requests, and node management.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker, including image build, optimization, and registry management.
• Troubleshoot cluster performance, networking, and workload issues across pods, services, and ingress/egress paths.

Reliability & Operations

• Lead incident response for platform-related issues, including on-call participation, triage, mitigation, and communication.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve platform reliability.
• Implement and continuously improve observability for platform components (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).
• Ensure high availability, minimal downtime, and scalability for platform services through proactive capacity and reliability planning.

Automation & DevOps

• Build andmaintainCI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments (preferably using Azure DevOps).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, and operational runbooks to reduce manual effort and errors.
• Implement and evolve self-service platform capabilities for development teams (templates, pipelines, standardized environments).
• Work closely with development and security teams to integrate DevOps and SRE best practices across the lifecycle.

Security & Governance

• Implement Azure security best practices, including Managed Identities, Key Vault, RBAC, and network security controls.
• Secure AKS clusters using network policies, pod identity,secretsmanagement, and least-privilege access controls.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and audit requirements across the platform.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to address vulnerabilities, harden configurations, andmaintainsecure baselines.