Technical — Essential
5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure
Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates
Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize
Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi-stage pipelines, approvals, environments
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language
Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control
Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts
KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience
Technical — Advantageous
Azure Key Vault, managed identity, Workload Identity for Kubernetes
OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno for Kubernetes policy enforcement
Kafka / Azure Event Hubs — consumer group management, lag monitoring
ADLS Gen2, WORM immutable storage, lifecycle management policies
Azure AI Foundry / APIM — token quotas, rate limiting, backend routing configuration
Security tooling: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Notary v2
Skills
Terraform
Kubernetes
Azure DevOps