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# Platform Architect/Cloud Architect

- **Company:** REQUEST TECHNOLOGY
- **Location:** Berkeley, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Applications Architecture, Computing Platforms, Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Stream Processing, Splunk, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75910904-platform-architect-cloud-architect

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience
 * Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes - Kubernetes tenants, observability, solution design, operators, cluster architecture, workload design, networking, security, and operational patterns at scale
 * Kubernetes on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
 * OPA (Open Policy Agent)
 * CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
 * Practical experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream processing frameworks - job design, state management, and deployment on Kubernetes
 * Experience designing and implementing GitOps pipelines -platform governance, infrastructure-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and release automation using tools such as Flux, ArgoCD, Terraform, or Helm

Preferred, not required

 * Hands-on experience architecting Apache Kafka deployments
 * Strong AWS architecture experience - VPCs, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, networking, and security services
 * Experience with observability tooling at scale - OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent

## Description

* Lead architecture design and decision-making for core platform capabilities: container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, cloud architecture, CI/CD and
 * GitOps pipelines, and observability
 * Develop and maintain target-state platform architectures with clear transition plans from current state
 * Own reference architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads, Kafka streaming topologies, Flink stream processing, and AWS infrastructure patterns
 * Architect and guide migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, and security services
 * Define GitOps model - infrastructure-as-code practices, pipeline standards, environment promotion, and configuration management at scale
 * Evaluate and recommend platform technologies and tooling; lead proof-of-concept efforts to validate architectural decisions before commitment
 * Establish observability standards - logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting - as a platform-level capability, not an afterthought
 * Partner with Application Architecture to ensure platform capabilities match application design requirements - particularly for high-throughput, low-latency clearing workloads
 * Collaborate with Engineering and operations teams to ensure platform designs are buildable, operable, and supportable - not just theoretically sound
 * Facilitate architecture working sessions with technical leads and business stakeholders; communicate platform decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences