Design and deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with private cluster configurations, managed identities, and RBAC More than 5 years of Kubernetes experience with at least 2 years on AKS in production. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals scheduling| networking| storage| RBAC. Experience with Helm| Kustomize| and GitOps workflows (FluxArgoCD). Proficiency in Azure CNI networking and AKS private cluster configuration. Hands-on experience with ACR| managed identities| and Key Vault integration. CICD pipeline experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. Experience with service mesh (Istio| Linkerd) on AKS. Exposure to multi-cluster and multi-region AKS architectures.