Kubernetes Platform Architect

Hudson Manpower•Plano, TX

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

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.