Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure AKS & Platform Security

Experteer Overview

In this role you own the reliability, security, and operational maturity of EnerSys's Azure and Kubernetes platform. You will collaborate with DevOps, architecture, cybersecurity, and data/ML teams to deliver secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure and support AI workloads in production. You’ll influence uptime, performance, and security posture while promoting a reliability‑first, cloud‑native culture. This is an opportunity to shape how we run AI‑enabled workloads at scale within a global technology platform.

Retribuzione / Benefits

• Design, build and operate secure, highly available Azure cloud architecture for microservices, event‑driven systems and AI workloads
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience patterns and production standards
• Operate production and non‑production AKS clusters including node pools, upgrades, autoscaling, RBAC, network policies, resource quotas, isolation patterns
• Automate provisioning and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Helm and Kustomize
• Own Azure and AKS security posture across identity, networking, secrets, policy, vulnerability management and software supply chain controls
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines through scanning, policy‑as‑code, deployment gates, audit logging and automated response patterns
• Design and operate Kubernetes API gateway and ingress layers (Apache APISIX or Kong) with routing, load balancing, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS and API lifecycle standards
• Build meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerts using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
• Lead or support incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, reliability improvements, chaos testing and on‑call readiness
• Support secure deployment and governance of AI/LLM workloads with controlled identities, network isolation, auditing, resource limits and approval gates

Responsabilità

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, Cloud or Infrastructure Engineering with production ownership
• Deep hands‑on Azure experience especially AKS, Azure Networking, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and Azure DevOps
• Strong AKS and Kubernetes experience including cluster design, CNI/networking, private clusters, DNS, RBAC, Managed Identities and autoscaling
• Strong infrastructure security background on Azure (Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel or SIEM/SOAR, Zero Trust, least privilege, network hardening, secrets management, supply chain security)
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management with Terraform, Bicep or Pulumi, plus Helm and/or Kustomize
• CI/CD and DevSecOps experience, ideally with Azure DevOps Pipelines (SAST/DAST, image scanning, IaC scanning, secret detection, deployment gates)
• Observability and incident management across metrics, logs, traces, alerts, SLOs/SLIs, root cause analysis
• Strong scripting or programming ability in Python, Bash, PowerShell and/or Go
• Practical experience with Kubernetes API gateways or ingress platforms (Apache APISIX, Kong)