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 microservices, event-driven processing, graph-based modeling and time-series ingestion services.
Responsibilities
- Familiarize with the current platform landscape and existing microservices architecture
- Review and validate the target LightOps architecture
- Assess and refine the migration strategy and resource requirements
- Identify risks and gaps across the migration scope
- Define migration workstreams and establish a migration roadmap with sequencing
- Support the evaluation and selection of additional consultants
- Influence the composition and structure of the delivery team
- Guide platform adoption across Kubernetes modernization initiatives
- Provide architectural direction for service mesh implementation given its high-risk profile
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering with strong expertise in Kubernetes, Helm and GitOps
- Proficiency in ArgoCD and Kubernetes security practices across multi-service platform migrations
- Hands-on expertise in Istio including gateway management, authorization policies and traffic routing
- Background in service-to-service communication within Service Mesh environments
- Expertise in HashiCorp Vault and secret management practices
- Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth2 and zero-trust architectures
- Experience 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
