• Infrastructure as code: Own and maintain all AWA Azure infrastructure in Terraform/Bicep: AKS 5-namespace cluster, ADLS Gen2 accounts with WORM policies, Azure AI Foundry APIM configurations, Azure Firewall allowlists, private endpoints, Key Vault, Container Registry, ExpressRoute peering.

• CI/CD pipeline ownership: Design and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for all AWA components: container image build → ACR push → Notary v2 signing → AKS deployment; Terraform plan → policy check → apply; Agent Regression Testing gate on every PR.

• AKS operations: Manage the 5-namespace AKS cluster — namespace isolation, Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, KEDA autoscaling rules based on Kafka consumer lag, OPA Gatekeeper admission policies, Workload Identity bindings for all agent pods.

• Container governance: Manage ACR, enforce Notary v2 image signing, configure vulnerability scanning, maintain the approved-image ConfigMap used by OPA Gatekeeper admission control.

• Secret and certificate management: Own Azure Key Vault configuration — access policies per managed identity, automatic TLS certificate rotation, secret rotation schedules, audit of all secret access events.

• Monitoring and alerting: Configure Azure Monitor alert rules and Log Analytics KQL queries for SLA breach, error rate spike, pod crash loop, token budget breach, and Kafka consumer lag; maintain PagerDuty escalation paths.

• Security posture: Work with the AI Security Engineer to implement Azure Policy assignments, Defender for Cloud recommendations, Firewall rule reviews, and Private Endpoint configurations; maintain the AWA network topology diagram.

• Disaster recovery: Maintain and test DR procedures: failover to UAE South replica for ADLS Gen2, Azure AI Foundry PTU → PAYG → DR endpoint routing, Orkes cluster recovery, RTO/RPO validation.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Technical — Essential

  • 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure

  • Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates

  • Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize

  • Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi-stage pipelines, approvals, environments

  • Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language

  • Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control

  • Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts

  • KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience

  Technical — Advantageous

  • Azure Key Vault, managed identity, Workload Identity for Kubernetes

  • OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno for Kubernetes policy enforcement

  • Kafka / Azure Event Hubs — consumer group management, lag monitoring

  • ADLS Gen2, WORM immutable storage, lifecycle management policies

  • Azure AI Foundry / APIM — token quotas, rate limiting, backend routing configuration

  • Security tooling: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Notary v2

  Skills

  Terraform

  Kubernetes

  Azure DevOps