Principal Platform Architect 280926

The successful candidate will define platform architecture across cloud infrastructure Kubernetes distributed systems identity and security observability and large-scale system design. This role will work closely with engineering product software development security and operations teams to establish robust architectural patterns and ensure platforms are scalable resilient secure and operationally efficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead cloud-native platform architecture for highly distributed and scalable systems.
• Design resilient distributed systems capable of operating across large-scale and potentially hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Establish architecture patterns for Kubernetes-based platforms containerized workloads orchestration service deployment and lifecycle management.
• Design and integrate identity authentication authorization IAM security and access-control capabilities into platform architecture.
• Define observability architecture including metrics logging tracing monitoring alerting and operational visibility.
• Architect platforms for high availability reliability fault tolerance performance and horizontal scalability.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs involving cloud services platform components APIs infrastructure security performance and operational requirements.
• Develop architecture standards reference architectures technical designs and architectural guidelines for engineering teams.
• Work closely with Engineering Product DevOps/SRE Security and Operations teams to translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple development teams and complex initiatives.
• Identify technical risks dependencies scalability constraints and opportunities for platform optimization.
• Support architecture decisions throughout the software development lifecycle from design through implementation and production operations.
• Promote automation infrastructure-as-code DevOps practices and consistent platform engineering principles.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• Cloud-native architecture
• Distributed systems architecture
• Kubernetes / container orchestration
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Cloud security and secure architecture
• Observability metrics logs tracing and monitoring
• Scalability and high-availability design
• Strong understanding of microservices and cloud-native design patterns
• Experience designing highly resilient and fault-tolerant platforms
• Strong understanding of APIs and platform integration
• Experience with hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud environments
• Strong architectural documentation and technical communication skills

Preferred Experience

• Experience within telecommunications networking 5G cloud platforms or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Experience with CNCF/cloud-native technologies.
• Knowledge of service mesh API gateways event-driven architectures and platform engineering.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps/SRE practices.
• Experience designing platforms supporting mission-critical high-volume workloads.

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering Telecommunications or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.