DevOps Engineer (Azure)

About the job About The Role You will contribute to building and evolving a secure, scalable AKS platform within a platform runtime pod. The role focuses on implementing infrastructure using Terraform and established patterns, ensuring reliable cluster operations and platform services. You will work within a collaborative team, delivering production-ready cloud solutions aligned with modern engineering standards Responsibilities Build AKS clusters and their dependent data, storage and eventing services in Terraform, working from the platform's existing modules and patterns. Implement cluster networking to the agreed design: Azure CNI Overlay with Cilium, private clusters, ingress and controlled egress. Apply the cluster hardening baselines: Pod Security Standards, admission control and secrets via Key Vault. Configure service mesh (Istio) for mutual TLS and basic traffic policy, following the mesh templates. Set up data and messaging services with private endpoints, zone redundancy and customer-managed keys. Develop Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines for repeatable delivery. Instrument observability with the Prometheus stack and Azure Monitor, and wire up image signing and scanning in the supply chain. Raise and work through pull requests, respond to review, and review peers' straightforward changes. REQUIREMEMENTS 3+ years in DevOps or platform engineering, with hands-on Terraform and container experience. Working Azure Kubernetes networking: Azure CNI Overlay with Cilium, ingress and egress, workload identity. Some experience deploying Azure data, storage or eventing services privately and with redundancy. Practical cluster hardening basics: Pod Security Standards, admission control and Key Vault secrets. Familiarity with service mesh (Istio), Helm and GitOps. Some exposure to the Prometheus stack and Azure Monitor. Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and the container supply chain (signing, scanning). Works well-scoped tasks end to end under review. SoftServe is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship, disability, health condition, marital or family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.