Need an Azure Engineer someone with Kubernetes knowledge and more cloud infrastructure oriented. Below are the skills needed for the role of Infrastructure Dev Ops for Mendix. (do not confuse with Azure DevOps tool (CI/CD, Boards, Pipelines)..

Level needed for the job:

Basic – means basic understanding of concept and hands on experience minimum 1 year (minimal assistance required).
Intermediate – complete understanding of concept/tool with minimum 2 years of due diligence in daily work (proficient without external support).
Advanced – detailed understanding of concept/tool with 4+ years on recent experience + skills for planning and designing solutions based on tool/concept (provides insights about how things can be done or can be improved).

Must have

Advanced | Skill: Azure Networking | High focus on container networking around AKS service. Understanding how networking is done in Azure, also all Ingress and Egress aspects of AKS for example: Application Gateway, Nginx Ingress Controller, Load balancing, Network Security Groups and firewalls in cloud env.
Intermediate | Tool: Azure Storage Account | Files for Mendix cluster are stored in Azure Storage Account.
Intermediate | Tool: Azure Container Registry (ACR) | Storing the Docker images for AKS.
Basic | Tool: Azure SQL (Elastic Pools, SQL Server & SQL db) | Foundation of Mendix for private cloud.
Intermediate | Tool/Skill: Fundamental IT & Infrastructure knowledge | Obvious things for Infra: DNS, TLS, CA Certs, Git, Scripting shell like (one of): bash, PowerShell.
Intermediate | Tool: Terraform | Hands-on knowledge: Needed for Zero-touch deployment and Mendix AAT | |
Intermediate | Skill: Monitoring skills for Azure resources | Main focus on AKS Nodes, Pods, deployments, and also Azure SQL db, PostgreSQL.
Intermediate | Tool: Velero (backup) | Backup tool for AKS, eventually other tools.
Intermediate | Skill: Disaster recovery mechanisms in Azure | For disaster recovery in Mendix and AAT, including but not limited to geo-redundancy, Availability group, Zones, for all azure tools AKS, ACR, VMs, SQL, Postgress.
Intermediate | Tool: Linux | ALL PODs for Mendix are running on Linux-like OS. Additional VMs.
Basic | Tool: Helm | Deployments on AKS .
Intermediate | Tool: OpenLens | Tool for managing and monitoring the cluster.
Intermediate | Skill: Documentation of solutions (e.g. configuration and setup) | Document work / diagrams / deployments workflows in any tool like Visio, Pencil, Glify.
Intermediate | Tool: Docker | Foundation for AKS .
Basic | Tool: Azure Identity and Access Management like Azure AD | Used for RBAC config of AKS.
Basic | Tool: Azure Monitor, App Insight, Log Analytics | Used for monitoring of cluster,
Intermediate | Tool: yaml | Scripting / configuration standard for most of services.

Good to have - Certification – “Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

Nice to have -

All CI/CD skills of DevOps like: Azure DevOps (tool), Azure Pipelines (tool) are more than welcome but on lowest priority the main focus is on Infra.
Basic | Tool: Ansible | Needed for Zero-touch deployment and Mendix AAT.
Basic | Tool: ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash) | Foundation of indexing mechanism for Mendix AAT hosted on AKS, deployed by Terraform scripts .
Intermediate | Tool: Postgres databases | Mendix AAT is using PostgreSQL to store metadata, next we will provide also PostgreSQL for Mendix Platform as a part of multi-database initiative.
Basic | Tool: Azure VMs | Used in few cases – self hosted Azure VMs.
Basic | Tool: Prometheus, Grafana & Loki | Monitoring capability
Intermediate | Tool: Apache Kafka | Mendix AAT main storage (self-hosted on AKS) |

Azure Engineer || K8s, Mendix