KONGSBERG Digital, a subsidiary of KONGSBERG, is a provider of next-generation software and digital solutions, to customers within defence and aerospace, maritime, oil and gas, wells and utilities. The company consists of more than 500 software experts with leading competence within the internet of things, smart data, artificial intelligence, maritime simulation, automation and autonomous operations. Kongsberg Digital is the group-wide center of digital expertise for KONGSBERG, an international, knowledge-based group delivering high-technology systems and solutions to clients within the oil and gas industry, merchant marine, defense and aerospace.

Job Description:

As a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, you will play a crucial role in managing and maintaining our cloud/on Prem setups ensuring reliability, security, performance and optimizing scalability for our clients. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deploy, monitor, and optimize our containerized applications and services, all while adhering to best practices and industry standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Azure AKS Management:

• Provision, configure, and manage Azure AKS clusters to support our containerized applications.
• Monitor cluster performance, scaling, and health, and adjust as needed.
• Administration in Network, MFA, SSO, Storage, NSG, Traffic Manager, ACR etc.
• Knowledge in Gloomesh, istio, Oracle cloud, AWS is a big plus.
• Upgrades and patching.
• Experience in Cloud migration

Openshift Cloud Management:

• Experience in Openshift container platform

On-premises/Hybrid:

• Experience with virtualization technologies like VMware or Hyper-V
• Provide hands-on support for the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of on-premises infrastructure, including servers, networking equipment and storage systems.
• Experience in micro segmentation (network), VPN tunnel, ADDS, DMZ, firewall

• LINUX/UNIX administration
• Maintenance/patching

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Pulumi, Terraform or ARM templates to automate AKS provisioning and configuration.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Typescript, Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation tasks.

Container Orchestration:

• Manage container orchestration using Kubernetes, including pod deployment, scaling, and network configurations.
• Experience in templating and deploying HELM packages.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to containers and container orchestration.
• Experience working on MongoDB, Redis, Timescale, Influx etc.

Monitoring and Logging:

• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions for AKS clusters using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo or similar tools.
• Configure and maintain centralized log management systems to ensure visibility into application performance.
• Experience in any SIEM tool (Azure Sentinel, Splunk etc.)
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide timely resolution to production incidents.

Security:

• Implement security best practices and policies for AKS, including network policies, RBAC, and container image scanning.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best security practices.

CI/CD Integration:

• Integrate Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipeline) for automated application deployment and updates.
• Experience in ARGO CD/Flux
• Experience in GitOps

Backup and Disaster Recovery:

• Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery plans for AKS clusters to ensure data integrity and high availability.
• Experience in concepts of DR/regional pairing.

Performance Optimization:

• Continuously optimize AKS resources to ensure efficient resource utilization, cost-effectiveness, and high-performance applications.

Documentation:

• Create and maintain detailed documentation of AKS configurations, processes, and best practices.