Kubernetes Administrator

Function

Cloud & Data Engineering Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description We are seeking an experienced Kubernetes Administrator to manage and scale enterprise-grade Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments across multiple Azure regions. The role focuses on Kubernetes operations, security, automation, GitOps, and cloud infrastructure reliability for mission-critical workloads.Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production AKS clusters across Azure regions
• Implement private AKS networking, RBAC, Workload Identity, Azure Policy, and Key Vault integrations
• Manage cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, scaling, DR, and blue/green deployments
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automate deployments via GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ACR integration
• Deploy and support Linkerd service mesh, mTLS, traffic management, and observability
• Configure monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Optimize cluster performance, security, availability, and cost
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes, networking, and application issues in production environments

Required Skills

• 5+ years Kubernetes administration experience in production
• 2+ years hands-on AKS experience
• Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, security, storage, and RBAC
• Experience with Azure networking, Private Endpoints, VNets, DNS, and managed identities
• Hands-on experience with Azure Key Vault, ACR, and CMK encryption
• Proficiency with Linux, Docker, Helm, kubectl, Bash/Python/PowerShell

Preferred Qualifications

• CKA or CKS certification
• Experience with Linkerd service mesh and AKS Fleet Manager
• Knowledge of Azure Policy, Kyverno/OPA, multi-cluster Kubernetes, and disaster recovery
• Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-500

#LI-MS2 About us

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.