About This Opportunity CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading airline organization to find an AKS / Platform Architect for their cloud platform engineering team based in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area. This team owns the container platform strategy for a large-scale enterprise environment. They're building out multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure with a strong emphasis on automation, security, and developer self-service. This is a design-and-build role, not a maintenance role. What You'll Do Architect multi-region AKS solutions built for availability and disaster recovery Build and own GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployment Configure ingress controllers and traffic routing for secure, scalable access Design identity and access management using Azure AD, RBAC, and pod identity Stand up monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing across the platform Build reusable platform services that improve developer productivity Partner with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into platform architecture Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineers Requirements What You Bring Must-Have: 5+ years of Kubernetes and container platform architecture experience Proven experience designing and deploying multi-region AKS clusters with failover and load balancing Hands-on GitOps implementation using Flux, ArgoCD, or similar Deep knowledge of Kubernetes ingress controllers and API gateway traffic management Strong understanding of Kubernetes identity and access management, including Azure AD integration, RBAC, and pod identity Experience implementing observability stacks — monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing Ability to travel for onsite work as needed (up to 25% annually) Strong communication skills with cross-functional technical teams Nice-to-Have: CKA or CKAD certification Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger specifically Background mentoring platform engineering teams Experience in a regulated or high-availability enterprise environment Technical Environment: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), multi-region architecture GitOps: Flux, ArgoCD Azure AD, RBAC, pod identity Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, Azure Monitor What Success Looks Like: A documented, working multi-region AKS reference architecture within the first 90 days GitOps workflows in production use across at least one major application team Reduced manual deployment friction reported by platform engineering stakeholders
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