Enterprise kubernetes architect
GeekSoft Consulting
Amsterdam, Netherlands
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tech stack
Azure
Cloud Engineering
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Hardware Infrastructure
Job description
- Help design, build and continuously improve the clients online platform.
- Research, suggest and implement new technology solutions following best practices/standards.
- Take responsibility for the resiliency and availability of different products.
- Be a productive member of the team.
Requirements
- Experienced Enterprise Kubernetes Architect with a strong background in designing, governing, and optimizing Kubernetes platforms across complex enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to act as a strategic advisor and advocate for platform standards, ensuring alignment with architectural principles established by central platform teams.
- Implement Kubernetes platform standards, best practices, and governance frameworks defined by the central platform team.
- Collaborate closely with system architects, domain architects, and engineering teams across multiple business units, clusters, and CIO streams to drive architectural consistency and adoption.
- Provide technical leadership and challenge architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and operationally efficient Kubernetes solutions.
- Design, review, and optimize Kubernetes architectures across hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.
- Promote platform engineering principles, operational excellence, automation, and cloud-native best practices throughout the organization.
- Support modernization initiatives and guide teams in adopting enterprise Kubernetes capabilities and standards.
- Extensive hands-on experience architecting and managing enterprise Kubernetes environments.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes across both on-premises and Azure public cloud platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, containerization, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively at both technical and leadership levels.
- Proven experience driving architectural governance, standards adoption, and cross-functional collaboration within large-scale enterprise organizations.