Role Description At AIS, we are seeking a talented individual to join us as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. The Kubernetes / Platform Engineer is responsible for deploying, configuring, securing, and validating the AKS platform layer within Azure Government. This role owns the Kubernetes configuration required to support enterprise workloads. - Support the onboarding of Adexone, BdBridge, Pipestress, and UiPath Automation Suite into AKS. - Ensure the platform is secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with customer operational standards. Qualifications - 5+ years of infrastructure, platform, cloud, or DevOps engineering experience. - 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes administration or engineering experience. - Experience deploying, configuring, and operating AKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes platforms. - Strong experience with Kubernetes objects including deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, storage classes, persistent volumes, and persistent volume claims. - Experience with Kubernetes networking, DNS, service discovery, ingress controllers, and network policies. - Experience with Helm, Kustomize, YAML-based deployment assets, and pipeline-driven deployment approaches. - Experience integrating Kubernetes with Azure Container Registry, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, managed identities, and Azure storage. - Ability to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues using kubectl, logs, events, metrics, probes, and cluster diagnostics. - Ability to document platform configuration, workload onboarding patterns, and operational procedures. Requirements - Configure AKS platform components including node pools, namespaces, service accounts, Kubernetes RBAC, resource quotas, limit ranges, network policies, ingress controllers, storage classes, and workload identity. - Implement secure private AKS operating patterns, including Kubernetes API access controls, administrative access paths, DNS validation, and cluster access procedures. - Configure approved ingress and service exposure models using internal load balancers, ingress controllers, Application Gateway integration, or other customer-approved patterns. - Configure Kubernetes storage integrations using Azure Disk, Azure Files, CSI drivers, persistent volumes, persistent volume claims, and workload-specific storage requirements. - Configure secrets and certificate integration using Azure Key Vault, Key Vault CSI driver, managed identities, workload identity, and approved certificate management processes. - Support deployment of Adexone, BdBridge, Pipestress, and UiPath Automation Suite workloads into AKS. - Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, deployment standards, and reusable workload onboarding patterns. - Support observability integration, including logs, metrics, probes, dashboards, alerts, and workload telemetry. - Implement Kubernetes security controls, including namespace isolation, least-privilege RBAC, pod security controls, network segmentation, admission controls, and image deployment constraints. - Troubleshoot platform and workload issues involving scheduling, node health, ingress, DNS, service discovery, storage mounts, pod identity, probes, container startup failures, and application runtime issues. Benefits - Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. - Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. - Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. - Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. Company Description AIS is a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. We value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.