Sr. Lead Platform Architect
Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
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Job Summary
This is a Hybrid opportunity in Chicago or Dallas that requires 2-3 days a week to work on site
Contract to Hire. Possible straight contract.
Primary Responsibilities
Sr. Lead Platform Architect will be responsible for:
Leading Architecture design and decision making or core platform capabilities including:
- container orchestration
- streaming infrastructure
- cloud architecture
- CI/CD and GitOps pipelines and observabilities
Transition to new platform mut be clearly defined
Must be proficient and own architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads Kafka streaming Flink stream processing and AWS infrastructure patterns
Architect and direct migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS
Technical Qualifications
Prefer Someone with solid DevOps background or 10 years of experience in infrastructure platform or system architecture
Proficiency and Hands on experience with:
- Kubernetes - workload design networking security cluster architecture
- Apache Kafka for deployment Apache Flink or similar stream processing
- AWS Architecture VPCs EC2 EKS MSK S3 IAM KMS
- Implementation of GitOps pipeline IaC secret management promotions
- Rrelease automation with the help of Flux ArgoCD Terraform or Helm
