First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026.
Critical skills
Technology: Workload automation + strong exposure to Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow
Excellent communication skills (global team, stakeholder alignment)
IT system design experience (large-scale, distributed systems)
Must-have experience & skills
5+ years of experience in solution/system architecture (or equivalent senior engineering with strong architecture ownership).
Proven experience designing large-scale software systems (distributed systems, microservices, APIs).
Hands-on or design-level expertise with:
Kubernetes (deployment patterns, scaling, reliability concepts)
Kafka (streaming concepts, integration patterns)
Airflow (or similar workflow/workload orchestration tools)
Strong architecture fundamentals: security-by-design, resiliency, performance, maintainability.
Ability to translate business goals into actionable technical designs and guide delivery.
Nice to have
DevOps skills (CI/CD, automation, infrastructure-as-code concepts).
Testing experience (test strategy, quality gates, non-functional testing).
Broader open source stack exposure (Linux, PostgreSQL, etc.) as supportive context for the platform.
Observability/monitoring/logging patterns in production-grade environments.
Tech stack
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Airflow

