Architect Kubernetes and Platform Engineering

Experience

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Platform Architect with strong expertise in containerized platforms, Kubernetes ecosystem, OpenShift, cloud-native development, logging & monitoring stacks, and secret management frameworks. The Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing platform services, including logging stacks (Loki/FLG), Keycloak identity services, and Vault-based secret management on Kubernetes.

The role involves leading technical designs, driving platform automation, defining best practices, performing complex troubleshooting, and guiding development teams in modern DevOps and SRE principles.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Kubernetes (K8s) Expert-level (Design, multi-cluster management, networking, operators, CRDs).
• OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) – Strong experience with enterprise deployments.
• Go Language – Proven experience building K8s-related tools/operators or backend services.
• Python & Shell scripting – Strong automation and tooling experience.
• Ansible – Playbook development, infrastructure automation.

Logging & Monitoring Stacks:

• PLG/ALG/FLG (Fluent/Promtail/Alloy Loki Grafana)
• Fluentd/FluentBit
• Hands-on experience architecting or stabilizing logging pipelines in production.

Identity & Security

• Keycloak – Development & integration on Kubernetes:
• Custom realms, identity brokering, RBAC, OAuth2/OIDC flows.

Vault Secret Management:

• Vault agent injector on K8s
• KV engine, Transit engine, dynamic secrets (DB, cloud providers)
• Vault HA setups and K8s auth methods

DevOps & Automation

• Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar CI/CD tools.
• Strong knowledge of containers, Dockerfiles, image security scanning, Helm, Kustomize.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices design, and distributed systems.

Testing & Quality

Knowledge on  automation using Robot Framework for functional/infra validation