AKS/Platform Architect
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CTI Consulting
Dallas, TX, US
Summary
Architect and build multi-region AKS solutions with a focus on automation, security, and developer self-service. Develop and maintain GitOps workflows while providing technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineers.
Job Description
About This Opportunity
CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading airline organization to find an AKS / Platform Architect for their cloud platform engineering team based in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area.
This team owns the container platform strategy for a large-scale enterprise environment. They're building out multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure with a strong emphasis on automation, security, and developer self-service. This is a design-and-build role, not a maintenance role.
What You'll Do
- Architect multi-region AKS solutions built for availability and disaster recovery
- Build and own GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployment
- Configure ingress controllers and traffic routing for secure, scalable access
- Design identity and access management using Azure AD, RBAC, and pod identity
- Stand up monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing across the platform
- Build reusable platform services that improve developer productivity
- Partner with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into platform architecture
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineers
Requirements
What You Bring
Must-Have:
- 5+ years of Kubernetes and container platform architecture experience
- Proven experience designing and deploying multi-region AKS clusters with failover and load balancing
- Hands-on GitOps implementation using Flux, ArgoCD, or similar
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes ingress controllers and API gateway traffic management
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes identity and access management, including Azure AD integration, RBAC, and pod identity
- Experience implementing observability stacks — monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing
- Ability to travel for onsite work as needed (up to 25% annually)
- Strong communication skills with cross-functional technical teams
Nice-to-Have:
- CKA or CKAD certification
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger specifically
- Background mentoring platform engineering teams
- Experience in a regulated or high-availability enterprise environment
Technical Environment:
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), multi-region architecture
- GitOps: Flux, ArgoCD
- Azure AD, RBAC, pod identity
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, Azure Monitor
What Success Looks Like:
- A documented, working multi-region AKS reference architecture within the first 90 days
- GitOps workflows in production use across at least one major application team
- Reduced manual deployment friction reported by platform engineering stakeholders
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
