Platform Architect with AKS || Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area (remote-primary with periodic onsite)

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Job Title: AKS / Platform Architect

Location: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area (remote-primary with periodic onsite)

Duration: 6 Months Contract (strong chance of extension to 12)

Client: Insight Enterprise

Start Date: 10-05-2026

Visas: EAD/L2EAD/EAD/H1B

Job Description:

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.

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)

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

Thanks,
Neeraj
It Resource Manager
Pioneer IT Systems
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