Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Engineer

2026-11-03

United States of America

US-CO-REMOTE

Remote

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position.​ The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.

• Typically requires: A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience
• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms; 3+ years hands-on Azure experience with 2+ years supporting or managing production Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred).
• Understanding of container architecture, Docker, and orchestration fundamentals with knowledge of Azure networking, security, managed identities, and resource architecture.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps approaches (Flux, ArgoCD) with hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated deep, hands‑on daily experience administering and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows Server environments, including system configuration, monitoring, patching, and performance optimization and must have diagnostic skills across distributed systems, compute, networking, storage, and application layers.

• Azure certifications (AZ‑104, AZ‑305, AZ‑400, AZ‑500) or Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD).
• Experience with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd) or ingress controllers.
• Exposure to cost optimization strategies for Kubernetes.
• Understanding of microservices architecture patterns and distributed system design.

None/Not Required

Not Required

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team:

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting containerized application platforms within the enterprise Azure cloud environment. This senior individual contributor role focuses on delivering scalable, reliable, and secure Kubernetes-based solutions. The engineer contributes technical depth, operational reliability, and continuous improvement but does not serve as the team lead.

• →Deploy, configure, and maintain production and non‑production AKS clusters following enterprise standards.
• →Manage all cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, scaling, node management, and workload integrations.
• →Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized workloads using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• →Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• →Implement and enforce AKS security controls including RBAC, Azure AD integration, image scanning, secrets management, and network security measures.
• →Monitor workloads using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana, and other observability tools; proactively address performance and reliability issues.
• →Partner with application teams and architects to design and support scalable microservices and containerized solutions.
• →Maintain documentation, runbooks, architecture patterns, and operational standards.
• →Participate in on‑call rotations and support incident response for AKS and related cloud platform services.
• →Support governance, compliance, and audit requirements for Kubernetes environments.

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