Product/Platform Architect - Kubernetes Deployment
First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Product / Platform Architect with 10+ years of experience to own the hands-on technical architecture of an enterprise operations platform.
You will oversee distributed services, agentic workflows, knowledge systems, integrations, and customer-hosted Kubernetes deployments across cloud and restricted environments.
Responsibilities:
Platform Architecture:
- Own service boundaries, APIs, data services, and architectural patterns for agent orchestration, knowledge graphs, and integrations.
Deployment & Security:
- Ensure platform deployability across cloud VPCs and on-premises environments, defining standards for security, RBAC, auditability, and secrets management.
Resilience & Governance:
- Establish design standards for retries, idempotency, state management, failure recovery, observability, and LLM/vendor abstractions.
Technical Leadership:
- Review major designs and critical code, identify and resolve architectural debt, and collaborate with product teams on technical feasibility and sequencing.
Required Technical & Professional Skills:
Experience:
- 10+ years building production software with demonstrated architecture ownership for enterprise-grade distributed systems.
Distributed Systems & Kubernetes:
- Deep knowledge of event-driven/asynchronous architectures, service boundaries, containers, cloud networking, and Kubernetes.
AI & Agentic Systems:
- Working understanding of LLM application architecture, tool calling, agent workflows, context retrieval, model abstraction, and human-in-the-loop execution.
Security & Observability:
- Strong grasp of authentication, authorization, RBAC, secret management, auditability, and production observability.
System Evolution & Hands-On Coding:
- Proven ability to evolve existing legacy platforms and sufficient coding ability to inspect, prototype, debug, and review production code.
Preferred Technical Skills:
- Practical SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or incident-management experience.
- Hands-on experience with knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/agentic systems in production.
- Direct experience delivering and supporting customer-hosted enterprise software.
Education :
- UG: Any Graduate.
- PG: MCA in Any Specialization, M. Tech in Any Specialization, MS/M. Sc(Science) in Any Specialization, Any Postgraduate.
Skills
Technical Architect, IT Product Architecture, Kubernetes, IT Governance, Enterprise IT Solution, Distributed Systems, Security, Observability Services, AIOps, LLMOps, Cloud