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Senior Kubernetes / AKS Platform Engineer

Amsys Innovative Solutions
Houston, TX Contractor
POSTED ON 5/30/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/29/2026

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Kubernetes / Platform Engineer to support enterprise-scale Kubernetes environments across Azure AKS and on-prem infrastructure. This role focuses on production operations, troubleshooting, platform reliability, and Kubernetes administration in a large enterprise environment. Ideal candidates will have strong AKS experience, deep troubleshooting skills, and production support for containerized applications.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and support Kubernetes environments (AKS on-prem K8S)
  • Troubleshoot production platform and networking issues
  • Support ingress, routing, scaling, storage, and workload isolation
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Work with Helm, GitOps, and containerized workloads
  • Partner with architecture and engineering teams on platform improvements
  • Support cloud infrastructure and operational best practices
  • Assist with emerging AI/ML platform workloads running on Kubernetes

Required Skills

  • Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred)
  • Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments
  • Kubernetes networking, ingress, RBAC, scaling, and troubleshooting
  • Azure cloud infrastructure experience
  • CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions)
  • Helm and container deployment experience
  • Linux and cloud operations background
  • Experience with enterprise observability and monitoring tools

Nice to Have

  • Rancher / K3s experience
  • Service mesh exposure (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd)
  • GitOps / ArgoCD
  • AI/ML workload deployment experience
  • Azure OpenAI / Azure Foundry exposure

Environment

Enterprise-scale platform engineering environment supporting modern cloud-native and AI transformation initiatives.

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