• Design, build, and maintain Azure-based infrastructure, with a primary focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for reliability, scalability, and developer experience. • Architect and operate infrastructure to support continuous availability — including zero-downtime deployments, automated rollouts, and the ability to scale capacity up and down in response to predictable demand peaks and quiet periods throughout the year. • Own system reliability and maintenance practices, including patching, upgrades, and configuration management across environments, ensuring infrastructure remains healthy, current, and audit-ready. • Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans — including documented runbooks, tested recovery procedures, rollback strategies, and data recovery protocols that can be executed confidently when needed. • Develop and document reusable tools, networking patterns, and infrastructure templates for engineering teams to follow. • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams when infrastructure changes are coming, or when working with them to understand what they need. • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of workflows. • Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, enabling repeatable and auditable provisioning across environments. • Implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions, including Grafana dashboards and alerting, to provide teams with clear visibility into system health. • Manage identity and access using Microsoft Entra ID, applying least-privilege principles across services and teams. • Approach all infrastructure work with a security-first mindset — proactively identifying risks, enforcing compliance patterns, and communicating deviations from standard operating procedures. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders and adjacent teams on infrastructure changes, timelines, and dependencies. • Contribute to the team's knowledge base by creating runbooks, architecture documentation, and onboarding guides.