Kubernetes Platform Architect
At NTT DATA Business Solutions, we help organizations accelerate their digital transformation through innovative cloud and platform solutions. As a Kubernetes Platform Architect, you will shape the future of our enterprise Kubernetes landscape, driving architecture, governance, security, and automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
In this strategic role, you will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, application, and AI engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and future-ready platforms supporting both business-critical and AI-powered workloads.
Your responsibilities:
Design and evolve enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Define platform standards, governance models, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
Lead cloud-native transformation initiatives and drive the adoption of modern platform engineering practices.
Architect highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms.
Define multi-cluster management strategies and governance frameworks using Rancher and related technologies.
Design networking and storage architectures for enterprise Kubernetes environments, including traffic management, connectivity, segmentation, and persistent storage solutions.
Establish standards for CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform automation.
Define platform security, observability, reliability, and operational excellence principles.
Provide architectural guidance for cloud-native applications, microservices, data platforms, and AI-powered workloads.
Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, and AI engineering teams to enable scalable and future-ready platform solutions.
Your profile:
8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture roles.
5+ years of experience designing Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.
Strong expertise in Kubernetes architecture, Linux, container technologies, and cloud-native ecosystems.
Proven experience defining architecture standards, governance models, and platform roadmaps.
Experience designing highly available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes environments.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, including cluster connectivity, traffic management, ingress solutions, load balancing, and network segmentation.
Experience architecting persistent storage solutions for Kubernetes platforms.
Experience with Rancher and multi-cluster Kubernetes management strategies.
Experience designing Kubernetes platforms on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Amazon EKS.
Experience defining CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform automation standards.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, observability, and platform reliability principles.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
Fluent English.
Nice to have:
Experience with Longhorn, Harbor, Fleet, Cilium, MetalLB, NGINX Ingress, Traefik, or Kube-VIP.
Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and GPU-enabled Kubernetes environments.
What we offer:
Opportunity to work with leading cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies
Participation in international projects and cooperation with global experts
Multisport Plus card
Private medical care (LUX MED)
Group insurance
Access to comprehensive psychological support, individual sessions with coaches and psychodietitians, as well as inspiring webinars
Remote work from any location, or a hybrid model using our office located in Poznań
A home office package to increase remote work comfort (chair, additional monitor, ergonomic mouse, etc.)
Modern office equipped with amenities such as a pool table, foosball, darts, and relaxation zones
Opportunities to spend time together after work, combining our employees' passions through ski trips, cycling tours, and sailing adventures
Regular company-wide and team-based integration events, as well as many other occasions to meet and exchange ideas with colleagues
Celebrations of important moments in the lives of our employees
An open approach to new ideas and initiatives, including charity actions