Cloud Architect

• Design, deploy, manage, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, or vanilla) in multi-cloud or hybrid environments
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (including modular design, state management, workspaces, and best practices)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, cluster lifecycle operations (upgrades, scaling, backups), and day-2 operations
• Develop clean, reusable Python automation scripts, tools, CLIs, custom Kubernetes controllers/operators, and operational workflows
• Build and maintain robust API integrations (REST, GraphQL) with major cloud provider APIs, observability platforms, CI/CD systems, secret managers, and internal services
• Design and implement secure, GitOps-style CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications (ArgoCD / Flux preferred)
• Work closely with development teams to containerize workloads, author Kubernetes manifests / Helm charts, and define deployment patterns
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, cloud-native tools)
• Enforce security best practices: RBAC, Network Policies, Pod Security Admission, secret management, image scanning, OPA/Kyverno policies
• Participate in production on-call rotation and incident response

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• GitOps tooling (ArgoCD)
• Helm chart authoring and management
• Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)
• CI/CD platforms: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Observability stack: Prometheus + Grafana 
• Policy engines: OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno
• Security tooling: Falco, Trivy, cosign
• Relevant certifications: CKA, CKAD, CKS, Terraform Associate, AWS/GCP/Azure certifications
  • Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud exposure