Big Data Platform Engineer

1. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
   Strong Expertise
   • AKS cluster deployment and administration
   • Cluster upgrades and patch management
   • Node pool management
   • Ingress Controllers (NGINX/Application Gateway)
   • RBAC implementation
   • AKS security hardening
   • Autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler)
   • Persistent storage management
   • Troubleshooting cluster issues
   • Network policies
   Experience
   • Production support of AKS environments
   • Multi-node and multi-environment AKS setups
   • High availability and disaster recovery implementation
2. Kubernetes Networking
   Strong Knowledge
   • Kubernetes networking concepts
   • Services, Ingress, Load Balancers
   • DNS resolution
   • Pod-to-Pod communication
   • Pod-to-Service communication
   • Network Policies
   • Service Mesh concepts (Istio preferred)
   • CNI Architecture
   Azure Networking
   • Virtual Networks (VNet)
   • Subnets
   • Private Endpoints
   • Peering
   • NSG
   • UDR
   • Azure Firewall
   • VPN connectivity
3. Docker Containerization
   Must Have
   • Docker image creation and optimization
   • Container lifecycle management
   • Registry management
   • Security scanning
   • Multi-stage builds
   • Container troubleshooting
   Registries
   • Azure Container Registry (ACR)
   • Image versioning and governance
4. Azure DevOps
   CI/CD Expertise
   • Azure DevOps Pipelines
   • YAML pipelines
   • Build and Release pipelines
   • Git repositories
   • Branching strategies
   Infrastructure Deployment
   • Infrastructure as Code
   • ARM Templates
   • Bicep
   • Terraform (preferred)
   Automation
   • Deployment automation
   • Environment promotion
   • Release management
5. Monitoring Observability
   • Azure Monitor
   • Log Analytics
   • Application Monitoring
   • AKS Monitoring
6. Event Streaming Platform
   • Azure Event Hub
7. Azure Functions
8. Apache NiFi
9. Infrastructure as Code

• Manage and support AKS-based Big Data platform infrastructure.
• Administer NiFi, Event Hub, and Azure Functions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Monitor platform health using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Troubleshoot platform, networking, and infrastructure issues.
• Implement infrastructure automation through Terraform/Bicep.
• Ensure platform security, governance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams for platform enablement.
• Perform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and optimization.
• Support production incidents and platform reliability initiatives.

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