Platform Architect
We are seeking a Platform Architect to lead the migration of an existing on-premises Kubernetes platform to the LightOps platform, supporting subsea production and monitoring use cases across a set of microservices, event-driven processing services, graph-based process modeling services, time-series ingestion services and frontend applications
Responsibilities
- Review the target architecture and validate the migration strategy
- Identify risks and gaps within the current platform landscape
- Refine resource requirements and define migration workstreams
- Establish the migration roadmap and sequencing
- Familiarize with the current landscape to inform planning decisions
- Interview and evaluate additional consultants to support delivery
- Influence the final composition of the delivery team
- Guide execution of specific workstreams through the adoption team
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience in Kubernetes platform engineering including Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows
- Expertise in ArgoCD and Kubernetes security practices across multi-service platform migrations
- Hands-on experience in Istio, Gateway management and Authorization Policies for service mesh implementations
- Skills in traffic routing and service-to-service communication within service mesh architectures
- Experience in HashiCorp Vault and secret management practices
- Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth2 and zero-trust architectures
- Background in leading platform adoption programs, Kubernetes modernization initiatives and complex application migrations
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kafka, Strimzi and PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of Cassandra, KEDA and Prometheus
- Understanding of Grafana, OpenTelemetry and Coraza WAF
- Background in Operational Readiness programs and SRE practices
