Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes Architecture
First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026.
Role Overview :
As a Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineer, you will design, own, and evolve scalable microservices architectures on Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments (GCP, Azure, and AWS), ensuring multi-tenant isolation, security, and performance at enterprise scale.
Key Responsibilities :
- Cloud & Kubernetes Architecture : Design multi-tenant, microservices-based systems and define reliability contracts that ensure enterprise-grade performance, security, and scalability.
- Platform Development : Build core platform components using Golang and Python, managing service-to-service communication.
- DevOps & Infrastructure as Code : Drive platform engineering practices using IaC (Terraform), Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Performance & Cost Optimization : Optimize systems for performance, latency budgets, and cost-per-request.
- Observability & Operations : Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and perform root-cause analysis.
Requirements :
- Experience : 5+ years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering.
- Core Languages : Strong proficiency in Golang and Python.
- Containers & Orchestration : Production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
- Cloud Infrastructure : Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, Azure, or AWS); multi-cloud exposure is a strong plus.
- Distributed Systems & Messaging : Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, or PubSub), idempotency, and backpressure.
- Education : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Skills
IT Infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, IAC Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker, Golang, Google Cloud Platform