Act as the authoritative Subject Matter Expert (SME) to help a major fintech architect, bootstrap, and build from scratch an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant AKS platform on a greenfield Azure landing zone.
Design and provision a greenfield, highly-scalable, multi-tenant AKS platform from the ground up (focusing on underlying cluster architecture, not just workload deployment).
Serve as the authoritative internal expert for the vast Kubernetes ecosystem.
Help structure and establish an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), defining how the new platform team will interact with and empower developer teams through self-service capabilities.
Transition the in-house engineering team into a high-performing internal platform team throughout the platform build process.
Design and implement enterprise-grade logging, metrics, and tracing for Kubernetes at scale.
Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code to a senior standard, taking charge of state strategy, module design, and drift management.

Recent, hands-on experience operating multi-cluster AKS in production environments, either multi-region or multi-tenant.
Proven experience building and architecting complex Kubernetes platforms from scratch.
Experience with Kubernetes platform engineering, including ingress and service mesh, OPA / Gatekeeper policy, secrets management, and progressive delivery.
Strong security awareness, displaying comfort with CAF / ALZ patterns, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, and policy-as-code.
Experience working with regulated or financial services workloads on Azure.
FinOps instincts for managing AKS and networking costs effectively.

Principal Engineer

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