This Sr. Cloud Engineer role involves designing, implementing, and managing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Responsibilities include monitoring and optimizing AKS performance, troubleshooting issues, and implementing security measures. The engineer will collaborate with development teams for application deployment and maintenance, maintain documentation, and automate containerized application management. Additional tasks include designing and deploying Kubernetes clusters, automating deployments, monitoring and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and resolving network communication issues. The engineer will also ensure the security and compliance of Kubernetes infrastructure, develop a self-managed ingress controller with security controls, write YAML code, participate in on-call rotation, and upgrade Kubernetes nodes.