Platform & DevOps Engineer (AKS + Observability)

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a technical specialist to join our team as a Platform & DevOps Engineer focused on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and observability solutions. This role is vital for building, deploying, and maintaining scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native platforms, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility. The successful candidate will play a key part in enhancing our cloud infrastructure and monitoring capabilities, contributing to the organization’s focus on innovative, reliable, and efficient technology deployment aligned with business objectives.

Software Requirements

Required Skills:

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Extensive experience managing and scaling clusters, with focus on health and performance tuning.
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), KEDA: Proven ability to implement and manage autoscaling solutions tied to application metrics and event triggers.
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps: Experience in CI/CD pipeline automation, continuous integration, and deployment strategies.
• OpenTelemetry & Azure Monitor / Grafana: Deep understanding of observability frameworks, configuring telemetry, and visualizing metrics and logs.
• NGINX / Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC): Configuration and management for traffic routing, load balancing, and TLS termination.
• Azure Key Vault: Secrets management, identity, and access control integration.
• TLS and Network Policies: Implementation of secure communications, isolation, and network segmentation in AKS environments.
• Cost and Performance Optimization: Techniques for resource tuning, monitoring, and efficient infrastructure utilization.
• Experience with advanced rollout strategies like Argo Rollouts, blue-green deployments.
• Knowledge of container security best practices and network architecture design.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes-based container platforms within Azure, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Implement and optimize autoscaling solutions using HPA and KEDA to meet fluctuating application demands.
• Azure Key Vault: Secrets management, identity, and access control integration.
• TLS and Network Policies: Implementation of secure communications, isolation, and network segmentation in AKS environments.
• Cost and Performance Optimization: Techniques for resource tuning, monitoring, and efficient infrastructure utilization.
• Experience with advanced rollout strategies like Argo Rollouts, blue-green deployments.
• Knowledge of container security best practices and network architecture design.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes-based container platforms within Azure, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Implement and optimize autoscaling solutions using HPA and KEDA to meet fluctuating application demands.

Preferred Skills:

Overall Responsibilities

• Automate CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to streamline deployment processes.
• Configure and optimize observability solutions with OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Grafana for comprehensive system visibility.
• Manage ingress and security configurations using NGINX and AGIC, including TLS setup and network policies.
• Monitor and analyze infrastructure performance and costs, recommending and executing improvements.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate platform services seamlessly into application deployments.
• Maintain compliance with security and operational best practices, including secrets management and network segmentation.
• Participate in planning and executing blue-green, canary, or Argo Rollouts deployment strategies.
• Provide ongoing platform support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure stability and efficiency.
• Technical Skills (By Category)
• Configure and optimize observability solutions with OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Grafana for comprehensive system visibility.
• Manage ingress and security configurations using NGINX and AGIC, including TLS setup and network policies.
• Monitor and analyze infrastructure performance and costs, recommending and executing improvements.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate platform services seamlessly into application deployments.
• Maintain compliance with security and operational best practices, including secrets management and network segmentation.
• Participate in planning and executing blue-green, canary, or Argo Rollouts deployment strategies.
• Provide ongoing platform support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure stability and efficiency.
• Technical Skills (By Category)

Cloud Technologies:

• Required: Azure AKS, Azure Monitor, Azure Key Vault (Azure SDKs and tools)
• Preferred: Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures
• Required: AKS management, HPA, KEDA, NGINX ingress, AGIC, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines
• Required: OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Grafana setup and customization
• Required: TLS configuration, Network Policies, ingress controllers, secrets management with Key Vault
• Techniques for resource scaling, cluster optimization, and monitoring utilization trends
• Required: Scripting knowledge (Bash, PowerShell), CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code practices
• Experience with advanced deployment strategies such as Argo Rollouts, blue-green deployments, canary releases
• Required: Azure AKS, Azure Monitor, Azure Key Vault (Azure SDKs and tools)
• Preferred: Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures
• Required: AKS management, HPA, KEDA, NGINX ingress, AGIC, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines
• Required: OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Grafana setup and customization
• Required: TLS configuration, Network Policies, ingress controllers, secrets management with Key Vault
• Techniques for resource scaling, cluster optimization, and monitoring utilization trends
• Required: Scripting knowledge (Bash, PowerShell), CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code practices
• Experience with advanced deployment strategies such as Argo Rollouts, blue-green deployments, canary releases

Container Orchestration & Deployment:

Observability & Monitoring:

Networking & Security:

Cost & Performance Tuning:

Development & Automation:

Preferred Skills:

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure management, specifically with AKS or Kubernetes-based environments.
• Proven track record in managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, especially in Azure.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing observability solutions in production environments.
• Understanding of container security best practices and network architecture design.
• Prior experience working with deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and performance/cost tuning in cloud-native environments.
• Domain experience in enterprise-scale environments, with exposure to high-availability systems and disaster recovery strategies preferred.

Day-To-Day Activities

• Building, configuring, and maintaining AKS clusters with optimized autoscaling (HPA/KEDA).
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Configuring observability tools, setting alerts, dashboards, and logs using OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Grafana.
• Managing ingress controllers, TLS certificates, and network policies to ensure secure communications.
• Conducting performance assessments, cost analysis, and optimizing resource utilization.
• Collaborating with development, security, and operations teams to implement best practices and streamline workflows.
• Responding to incidents, troubleshooting platform issues, and refining configurations for better resilience.
• Participating in planning sessions for new features, rollouts, or infrastructure upgrades.
• Conducting regular reviews of security configurations, secrets management, and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Educational: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. Equivalent practical experience is also acceptable.
• Certifications: Relevant Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer) are advantageous.
• Training & Development: Commitment to staying updated with latest cloud-native and DevOps practices through courses, webinars, or industry certifications.

Professional Competencies

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex cloud and infrastructure issues.
• Ability to design scalable, secure, and efficient platform solutions.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating across technical teams and stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills for managing multiple tasks, priorities, and projects.
• Continuous learning attitude, with adaptability to evolving cloud technologies and methodologies.
• Creative problem-solving capabilities for optimizing operational costs and system performance

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Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

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