Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure AKS & Platform Security

ppEnerSys is a global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. We have over thirty manufacturing and assembly plants worldwide servicing over 10,000 customers in more than 100 countries. Worldwide headquarters are located in Reading, PA, USA with regional headquarters in Europe and Asia. We complement our extensive line of Motive Power and Energy Systems with a full range of integrated services and systems. With sales and service locations throughout the world, and over 100 years of battery experience, EnerSys is the power/full solution for stored DC power products. /p h3Job Purpose /h3 pWe are looking for a senior, hands‑on platform engineer to own the reliability, security and operational maturity of our Azure and Kubernetes platform. You will work within our platform team, in partnership with the DevOps Team Lead, architecture, engineering, cybersecurity and data/ML teams, to build secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure and support the safe operation of emerging AI workloads. In this role, you will directly influence uptime, performance, cloud security posture and customer experience on Azure. You will also help define how the organization safely runs AI‑enabled workloads in production, while evolving the engineering culture toward reliability‑first, security‑by‑default, cloud‑native delivery. /p h3Essential Duties and Responsibilities /h3 h31. Azure, AKS and platform reliability /h3 ul liDesign, build and operate secure, highly available Azure cloud architecture for microservices, event‑driven systems and AI‑related workloads. /li liDefine and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience patterns and operational standards for production services. /li /ul h32. Kubernetes platform engineering and automation /h3 ul liOperate production and non‑production AKS clusters, including node pools, upgrades, autoscaling, RBAC, network policies, resource quotas and isolation patterns. /li liAutomate provisioning and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Helm and Kustomize. /li /ul h33. Platform security and DevSecOps /h3 ul liOwn Azure and AKS security posture across identity, networking, secrets, policy, vulnerability management and software supply chain controls. /li liEmbed security into CI/CD pipelines through scanning, policy‑as‑code, deployment gates, audit logging and automated response pattern. /li /ul h34. API gateways, ingress and service traffic /h3 ul liDesign and operate Kubernetes API gateway and ingress layers, ideally using Apache APISIX or a similar platform such as Kong. /li liImplement routing, load balancing, rate limiting, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, traffic controls and API lifecycle standards. /li /ul h35. Observability, incidents and operational excellence /h3 ul liBuild meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerts using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry. /li liLead or support incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, reliability improvements, chaos testing and on‑call readiness. /li /ul h36. Safe AI/LLM workload operations on Kubernetes /h3 ul liSupport secure deployment and governance of AI, LLM or agentic workloads using controlled identities, network isolation, auditing, resource limits and approval gates. /li liPartner with data/ML and security teams to reduce risks such as prompt injection, tool abuse, data exfiltration and uncontrolled compute spend. /li /ul h37. Technical leadership and enablement /h3 ul liPartner with engineering teams to define platform standards, coach teams on secure‑by‑default practices and improve developer self‑service. /li liCreate and maintain documentation, runbooks, threat models and reusable automation that reduce operational toil. /li /ul h3Must‑haves /h3 ul li5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, Cloud or Infrastructure Engineering roles with significant production ownership. /li liDeep hands‑on Azure experience, especially AKS, Azure Networking, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and Azure DevOps. /li liStrong AKS and Kubernetes experience, including cluster and node pool design, CNI/networking, private clusters, DNS, ingress, RBAC, Managed Identities and autoscaling. /li liStrong infrastructure security background on Azure: Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel or SIEM/SOAR, Zero Trust, least privilege, network hardening, secrets management and supply chain security. /li liInfrastructure as Code and configuration management experience with Terraform, Bicep or Pulumi, plus Helm and/or Kustomize. /li liCI/CD and DevSecOps experience, ideally with Azure DevOps Pipelines, including SAST/DAST, dependency or image scanning, IaC scanning, secret detection and deployment gates. /li liObservability and incident management experience across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, root cause analysis and durable remediation. /li liStrong scripting or programming ability in Python, Bash, PowerShell and/or Go. /li liPractical experience with Kubernetes API gateways or ingress platforms, such as Apache APISIX, Kong or similar. /li /ul h3Nice‑to‑haves /h3 ul liExperience deploying or governing AI, LLM or agentic workloads on Kubernetes, including inference serving, tool gateways or MCP servers, guardrails, sandboxing, agent identity and behavioral observability. /li liRelevant certifications such as CKA, CKS, AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-500, AZ-305, SC-100 or equivalent. /li liService mesh experience with Istio, Linkerd or Cilium for traffic management, observability and mTLS. /li liGitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux. /li liExperience with event‑driven systems such as Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ. /li liExperience with multi‑cluster or hybrid‑cloud Kubernetes, chaos engineering, resilience testing or FinOps/cost governance on Azure. /li liPerformance tuning experience for high‑throughput APIs, event‑processing platforms or Kubernetes workloads. /li /ul h3What will help you succeed /h3 ul liA calm, structured approach during high‑pressure incidents, including security events. /li liA security‑first mindset with the ability to balance reliability, delivery speed and risk. /li liClear communication skills and the ability to simplify complex technical topics for different audiences. /li liA collaborative, ownership‑driven style: you work well in a platform team, share knowledge openly and can take a problem from architecture through production operation. /li /ul h3Equal Employment Opportunity /h3 pEnerSys provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr