Lead Azure Cloud & AKS DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Lead Engineer iss responsible for leading E2E setup of enterprise scale platforms from the ground up, including GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Argo CD, and shared Azure networking, ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and reliability.

- Architect and implement enterprise ready platform foundations, defining network topology, identity and access management, security controls, high availability, disaster recovery, and governance standards across all platforms.

- Design, build, and operate AKS platform architectures, including cluster strategy, nodes, ingress, networking, secrets management, workload isolation, GitOps integration, and lifecycle management to support large scale adoption.

- Strong Linux administration & operations expertise, using advanced command line tools to provision, configure, secure, and operate AKS nodes at scale.

- Establish and configure GitOps based deployment models using Argo CD, including application onboarding, environment promotion strategies, RBAC, multi cluster management, and integration with GitHub and AKS.

- Set up and govern source control and artifact management platforms -GitHub Enterprise and JFrog Artifactory, defining organization structures, access models, security scanning, retention policies, and CI/CD integrations.

- Drive CI/CD and deployment strategies for containerized and Kubernetes workloads, enabling Blue Green and zero downtime releases.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning & operations using Terraform, PowerShell, Python, and Bash, ensuring consistency, and operational efficiency.

- Design observability for availability, performance, reliability across platforms.

- Partner with global stakeholders to align platform capabilities with product needs, ensuring secure Azure environments using industry best practices.