Principal Systems Architect - Container Runtime & Cloud Platform -

Hiring: Principal Systems Architect Container Runtime & Cloud Platform

Contract (Venpa Payroll)

Role Summary

Principal Systems Architect

deep Linux systems knowledge

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the

  overall architecture

  of the UltraEdge platform
• Design and review

  container runtime and image management systems

• Define

  Kubernetes integration strategies

  (CRI, container lifecycle, runtime hooks)
• Drive

  performance, reliability, security, and scalability standards

• Provide architectural guidance to

  runtime, platform, DevOps, CloudOps, and UI teams

• Ensure

  production readiness

  across

  multi-cloud and hybrid environments

• Define

  release strategies, upgrade paths, and operational best practices

• Mentor senior engineers and enforce

  architectural discipline and design standards

Required Technical Skills

Systems & Container Runtime

• Linux filesystem internals:

  OverlayFS, VirtioFS, FUSE, EROFS

• OCI image & runtime specifications

• Docker internals and

  container lifecycle

• Content-addressable storage (

  tar, gzip, SHA256

  )

Programming

• Strong expertise in

  Rust systems programming

Kubernetes (Deep Internals)

• kubelet, kubeadm, kubectl
  

• containerd, CRI, OCI concepts

• Control plane and workload primitives
  
• Hands-on with

  EKS, AKS, GKE

Cloud, Networking & Infrastructure

• VM and cloud compute fundamentals
  
• VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT, Internet Gateway
  
• Security groups, inbound/outbound rules
  
• CIDR and IP planning
  
• Container registries:

  ECR, ACR, GCR, Docker Registry

Platform, Messaging & Observability

• Service Mesh:

  Istio / Consul

• Messaging systems:

  Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS

• Prometheus, Grafana

• OpenTelemetry

  , distributed tracing
• Ingress / Egress design
  
• OpenLens
  

Automation, CI/CD & Deployment

• Git, branching strategies, release management
  
• CI/CD pipelines and automation
  

• Blue-Green & Canary deployments

• Shell scripting
  

• Terraform, Ansible

• Golden / baked images (AMI, custom node images)
  

OS, Hardware & Security

• Linux distributions (

  RHEL, Ubuntu

  )
• CPU architectures (

  x86_64, ARM

  )
• CVE scanning and vulnerability management
  
• Secure runtime and platform design
  

Performance Engineering

• Load & performance testing
  
• Observability-driven optimization and tuning
  

Application & Product Architecture

• Microservices architecture
  
• API Gateways
  
• Circuit breakers & rate limiting
  
• ORMs (EF or equivalent)
  
• Local dev tools:

  Minikube, Skaffold, Docker Desktop

Nice to Have

• Experience building or contributing to

  container runtimes, OS components, or Kubernetes internals

• Background in

  high-performance or low-level infrastructure platforms

Engagement Details

• Type:

  Contract – Venpa Payroll

• Location:

  Remote

• Budget:

  2.5 – 3 LPM (Max)

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