• Design, build, and maintain AKS clusters, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of containerized workloads. • Implement Kubernetes manifests (Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Helm charts). • Manage containerization pipelines using Docker, ensuring efficient image builds, tagging strategies, and vulnerability scanning. • Monitor and optimize AKS cluster performance, scaling, and cost efficiency. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent. • Automate build and deployment processes for microservices and cloud-native applications. • Implement automated testing, quality checks, and deployment gates within the pipeline. • Manage build artifacts, versioning, and release documentation. • Create reusable pipeline templates to standardize workflows across development teams. • Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates. • Automate environment creation for dev, test, staging, and production environments. • Implement configuration management using tools like Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or Azure CLI.