Kubernetes Platform Architect

At NTT DATA Business Solutions, we help organizations accelerate their digital transformation through innovative cloud and platform solutions. As a Kubernetes Platform Architect, you will shape the future of our enterprise Kubernetes landscape, driving architecture, governance, security, and automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

In this strategic role, you will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, application, and AI engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and future-ready platforms supporting both business-critical and AI-powered workloads. 

Your responsibilities:

• Design and evolve enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Define platform standards, governance models, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.

• Lead cloud-native transformation initiatives and drive the adoption of modern platform engineering practices.

• Architect highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms.

• Define multi-cluster management strategies and governance frameworks using Rancher and related technologies.

• Design networking and storage architectures for enterprise Kubernetes environments, including traffic management, connectivity, segmentation, and persistent storage solutions.

• Establish standards for CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform automation.

• Define platform security, observability, reliability, and operational excellence principles.

• Provide architectural guidance for cloud-native applications, microservices, data platforms, and AI-powered workloads.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, and AI engineering teams to enable scalable and future-ready platform solutions.

Your profile:

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture roles.

• 5+ years of experience designing Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes architecture, Linux, container technologies, and cloud-native ecosystems.

• Proven experience defining architecture standards, governance models, and platform roadmaps.

• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes environments.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, including cluster connectivity, traffic management, ingress solutions, load balancing, and network segmentation.

• Experience architecting persistent storage solutions for Kubernetes platforms.

• Experience with Rancher and multi-cluster Kubernetes management strategies.

• Experience designing Kubernetes platforms on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Amazon EKS.

• Experience defining CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform automation standards.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, observability, and platform reliability principles.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.

• Fluent English.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Longhorn, Harbor, Fleet, Cilium, MetalLB, NGINX Ingress, Traefik, or Kube-VIP.

• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and GPU-enabled Kubernetes environments.

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work with leading cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies

• Participation in international projects and cooperation with global experts

• Multisport Plus card

• Private medical care (LUX MED)

• Group insurance

• Access to comprehensive psychological support, individual sessions with coaches and psychodietitians, as well as inspiring webinars

• Remote work from any location, or a hybrid model using our office located in Poznań

• A home office package to increase remote work comfort (chair, additional monitor, ergonomic mouse, etc.)

• Modern office equipped with amenities such as a pool table, foosball, darts, and relaxation zones

• Opportunities to spend time together after work, combining our employees’ passions through ski trips, cycling tours, and sailing adventures

• Regular company-wide and team-based integration events, as well as many other occasions to meet and exchange ideas with colleagues

• Celebrations of important moments in the lives of our employees

• An open approach to new ideas and initiatives, including charity actions