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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Victoria Metrics Architect - **Company:** THE PHOENIX - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $135,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Data Deduplication, High-Level Architecture, OpenShift, Role-Based Access Control, Git, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Bare Metal - **Published:** July 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b365e3448b4c5b98 ## About the Role Hands-on operation of Victoria Metrics in production - VM Cluster topology (VM Insert, VM Storage, VM Select), vm agent scrape and stream aggregation, VM Auth multi-tenant routing, VM Alert and VM Alert manager rule design, and Metrics QL query authoring. Ability to govern active time series cardinality, configure retention and down sampling, and design multi-cluster federation with cross-cluster deduplication and write-path failover., Verifiable production VM Cluster deployments handling sustained, high-cardinality workloads - not evaluation or sandbox only. Evidence of diagnosing and remediating a cardinality problem in a live environment. Operational experience of VM Auth-based per-tenant data isolation beyond authentication alone. Familiarity with the Victoria Metrics Operator on Kubernetes and its upgrade lifecycle. Intermediate accepted where Expert-level Observability is demonstrated., * Architecture Leadership * Security & Identity * Kubernetes & OpenShift * GitOps & CI/CD * Networking * Telecommunications ## Description Ability to serve as the single accountable design authority for a complex technical platform - producing High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, sequence diagrams, and interface contracts that engineering teams build from directly. Comfortable presenting architecture decisions and their trade-offs to mixed audiences from senior engineers to executive sponsors, adjusting depth without losing accuracy. Has held a Principal or Staff Architect role where design and build were explicitly separated. Maintained an ADR record throughout a programme delivery. Can name a design decision they were challenged on, the trade-offs documented, and how the decision held up through delivery. Evidence of architecture governance participation: design review boards, security assurance gates, and formal approval before engineering investment began. Kubernetes & OpenShift Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting across StatefulSets, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses, Operators, RBAC, and NetworkPolicy. Red Hat OpenShift-specific competency: Security Context Constraints, OCP upgrade path management, OLM operator lifecycle, and the material differences from cloud-managed Kubernetes that affect stateful, high-throughput workloads. Multi-cluster topology design including hub and spoke architectures and cross-cluster connectivity. Operational experience on Red Hat OpenShift in an on-premises or bare-metal enterprise environment - not exclusively cloud-managed Kubernetes. Has configured SCCs for a stateful workload without cluster-admin workarounds. Managed an OCP cluster through at least one version upgrade including Operator compatibility validation. Experience with OpenShift ACM or equivalent for policy and workload deployment across a cluster fleet. GitOps & CI/CD GitOps-native delivery model using ArgoCD or FluxCD as the reconciliation engine - all cluster state managed in Git, no manual production changes permitted. Kustomize overlay strategy for multi-environment and multi-tenant deployments: base resource definitions with environment-specific patches. GitLab CI/CD pipeline design including Kubernetes manifest validation gates, custom resource health checks, and environment promotion from lab through staging to production. Has operated a GitOps-exclusive delivery model in production where ArgoCD or Flux managed all cluster state and direct kubectl commands to production were prohibited. Designed a Kustomize overlay structure for a multi-cluster platform workload - not a single-cluster application. Built a GitLab CI pipeline with schema validation and promotion gates blocking invalid configurations before staging. 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