Azure Cloud Engineer (AKS)

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) in large‑scale production environments. The role focuses on ensuring secure, stable, and high‑performance cloud infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) across production workloads.
• Analyze system errors, define corrective actions, and ensure infrastructure security and performance.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure components including networking, security, compute, storage, and databases.
• Implement best practices, adhere to change‑management policies, and maintain documentation.
• Perform patch, vulnerability, and compliance management in line with Mashreq information security policies.

Required profile

• 5–8 years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure (network, security, compute, storage, databases) and Kubernetes.
• Proven ability to work in large‑scale production environments and deliver services on time.

Required skills

• Azure IaaS & PaaS, Azure Administration, Azure APIs
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and general Kubernetes
• Terraform and Azure DevOps
• PowerShell scripting
• Linux and Windows operating systems
• Cloud monitoring, backup, patch and vulnerability management
• Networking, RBAC, security policies, and compliance