Platform Architect

Job Requirements

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Platform Architect to define and drive the architecture of a modern, cloud-native platform supporting scalable, secure, and resilient applications.

The role requires strong expertise in containerization, microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Redis, multi-tenant architecture, and cross-region deployment.

Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.

The Platform Architect will work closely with engineering, DevOps/SRE, security, and product teams to establish platform standards, reference architectures, and reusable technical patterns.

Key Responsibilities


* Define the overall architecture and technical direction for the platform.


* Design scalable and resilient microservices-based architectures.


* Establish standards for containerized workloads and Kubernetes deployments.


* Define cloud architecture using Azure services and cloud-native design principles.


* Design secure and scalable multi-tenant architectures, including tenant isolation and resource segregation.


* Define multi-region deployment, failover, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies.


* Design caching and distributed state-management solutions using Redis.


* Establish standards for service communication, API design, asynchronous messaging, retries, resiliency, and fault handling.


* Define platform security patterns including identity, access control, secrets management, and workload isolation.


* Define observability standards for logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and service health.


* Guide Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automated platform deployment practices.


* Conduct architecture and design reviews and drive resolution of architectural risks and technical debt.


* Create and maintain reference architectures, design documentation, and architecture decisions.


* Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native and distributed-system design practices.

Core Technical Skills

Must Have

Containerization


* Strong experience with Docker/OCI containers.


* Understanding of container lifecycle, security, networking, and image optimization.

Kubernetes


* Strong hands-on architectural knowledge of Kubernetes.


* Experience with:


* Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, and Ingress


* ConfigMaps and Secrets


* Autoscaling and resource management


* Persistent storage


* RBAC and network policies


* Cluster and workload high availability


* Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preferred.

Microservices & Distributed Systems


* Strong understanding of:


* REST APIs and service-to-service communication


* Event-driven and asynchronous architectures


* API gateways


* Service decomposition


* Resiliency patterns


* Distributed transactions


* Eventual consistency


* Idempotency


* Fault tolerance and graceful degradation

Cloud Architecture


* Strong cloud arch...