Release Train Engineer Azure Infrastructure and AKS

Chicago Heights, United States | Posted on 10/22/2026

Job Title: Release Train Engineer Azure Infrastructure and AKS

Job Location: Chicago, IL, 60603

Work Model: Hybrid

Work Model Details: 3 times a week is mandatory

Shift: M-F, 8am - 5pm

Employment Type: Temp to Hire

Must Have Skills/Attributes: ADO, Azure, BASH, Docker,Kubernetes, Power Shell, Python, Release Train Engineer (RTE) Certified,Terraform, YAML

• Azure Infrastructure and AKS (10 yrs)
• Kubernetes, Docker and Helm (10 yrs)
• CI/CD Pipeline Engineering (10 yrs)
• Infrastructure as Code & Scripting (10 yrs)
• Networking, Security & Monitoring (10 yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Required

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

• Hands-on provisioning,configuring, and troubleshooting Azure infrastructure
• (Secondary) AKS, virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, storage accounts
• Deploying and supporting containerized API services on AKS
• (Secondary) AKS clusters: nodepools, scaling, upgrades, resource quotas, workload availability
• YAML-based CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions
• Automated testing, artifact management, environment promotion, rollback
• Integrating automated tests,container image scanning, security checks, approval gates
• Scripting:
  Power Shell, Bash, or Python
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform or Bicep
• Git-based version control
• (Secondary) Terraform modules,version-controlled configurations
• Linux, HTTP/REST APIs, DNS, TLS,ingress, load balancing
• Access controls and secrets management (Azure Key Vault)
• Least-privilege access, managed identities, workload identity, RBAC
• Production monitoring, incident troubleshooting, controlled releases
• Dashboards and actionable alerts
• Root-cause resolution across application and infrastructure layers
• Tested rollback procedures and release runbooks
• Cosmos DB: container creation,index maintenance, RU allocation, data copying
• Agile/SAFe: value stream improvement, Dev Ops, Release on Demand, Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Partnering with Agile PMO and delivery leadership (reporting, governance)

• Enterprise API/integration/data platform experience in financial services or regulated environments

• Clear communication across engineering, security, and operations teams
• Ownership of technical issues through resolution
• Collaboration with developers,architects, security, platform teams

The Release Train Engineer will provision and manage Azure infrastructure, build deployment automation, and deploy and support API services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This is a hands-on engineering role requiring practical experience with Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.

The engineer will work with development, architecture, security, and operation steams to deliver secure, reliable, and repeatable deployments across development, test, and production environments, and will communicate release status and progress to business and technical stakeholders in the PADS program.

• Execute production releases,validate service health after deployment, and maintain tested rollback procedures and release runbooks.
• Configure and operate Cosmos DB databases, including container creation, index maintenance, RU allocation,and data copying.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions) to automate builds, testing,image publishing, and deployments across environments.
• Configure Kubernetes deployments,services, ingress, health probes, resource requests/limits, and environment-specific application settings.
• Configure secure API connectivity: DNS, TLS certificates, load balancing, private endpoints,and Azure API Management integration…