Kubernetes Platform Architect-5

Job summary

Leads the architecture and operation of enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms for mission-critical applications, defining platform standards, lifecycle processes, security governance, and multi-cluster strategy. The role automates cluster provisioning and upgrades with Cluster API, establishes GitOps deployment practices using Flux, Helm, and Kustomize, and delivers secure, highly available platforms with observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Infrastructure, Cloud, or Platform Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes architecture experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on Kubernetes workload management experience.
• Strong experience with Cluster API for cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, lifecycle management, and infrastructure automation.
• Expertise in Kubernetes networking, including CNI, CoreDNS, Ingress Controllers, Gateway API, load balancers, service discovery, and network policies.
• Experience with GitOps using Flux, Helm, Kustomize, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on Kubernetes security experience with RBAC, service accounts, secrets, certificate management, and policy enforcement.
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance management.
• Experience with CSI drivers, Storage Classes, PV/PVC administration, and stateful workloads.
• Experience implementing disaster recovery, backup and restore, high availability, and platform resilience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes clusters, nodes, networking, workloads, scheduling, storage, authentication, and infrastructure.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Experience standardizing processes and driving continuous improvement.
• Ability to assess feasibility, complexity, and scope of new capabilities.
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and collaboration with global business and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern enterprise Kubernetes platforms for mission-critical applications.
• Define reference architectures, platform standards, operational models, and lifecycle processes.
• Automate cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and decommissioning with Cluster API.
• Design secure, highly available, scalable multi-cluster environments.
• Establish GitOps practices for configuration management and deployment automation.
• Govern RBAC, secrets management, admission controls, policy enforcement, and compliance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Develop capacity planning, scheduling, workload placement, and resource optimization strategies.
• Lead root cause analysis for platform, networking, storage, security, and availability issues.
• Design and validate backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to onboard cloud-native applications.
• Establish governance, tenancy models, automation, and cost optimization across clusters.
• Provide architectural leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance to engineering and operations teams.
• Evaluate Kubernetes ecosystem technologies and lead platform modernization.

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