Kubernetes Platform Architect

Job Description

Position

Kubernetes Platform Architect

Experience

10+ Years

Primary Skill

Kubernetes / Platform Engineering

Cloud Preference

AWS

Role Overview

The Kubernetes Platform Architect will provide technical leadership for designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms. The role focuses on platform architecture, lifecycle automation, security, observability, resilience, and multi-cluster strategy.

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years of Infrastructure, Cloud, or Platform Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with deep expertise in Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes architecture experience.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is mandatory.
• Strong platform engineering experience with Kubernetes, rather than application development on Kubernetes.
• Strong Kubernetes architecture knowledge including control plane, worker nodes, API Server, etcd, resource lifecycle management, and reconciliation patterns.
• Strong experience with Cluster API (CAPI) for cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, lifecycle management, and infrastructure automation.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes workloads including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and container lifecycle operations.
• Strong Kubernetes networking experience 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 practices.
• Strong Kubernetes security experience including RBAC, Service Accounts, Secrets Management, certificate management, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana, including centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance management.
• Experience with persistent storage including CSI drivers, Storage Classes, PV/PVC administration, and stateful workloads.
• Experience designing disaster recovery, backup/restore, high availability, and resilient Kubernetes platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes clusters, nodes, networking, workloads, scheduling, storage, authentication, and infrastructure.
• Strong AWS cloud experience with Kubernetes platforms.

Roles & Responsibilities

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

Nice to Have

• Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) experience.
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.