TESTQ Technologies
Senior Architect
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Responsibilities:
Skills:
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- VMware
- Virtualization
Define and drive Private Cloud architecture aligned with Client Cloud Strategy
Provide hands on technical leadership across virtualization containers Kubernetes, Kafka, and microservices platforms
Review architecture designs and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective
Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and platform guardrails
Lead the design and evolution of private cloud platform components including compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and platform services
Drive platform consistency across development, testing, and production environments
Translate business and technology requirements into actionable platform engineering roadmaps
Own Kubernetes architecture decisions including cluster design, multitenancy, ingress, service mesh, secrets management, observability, upgrade strategies, and workload onboarding
Establish GitOps, CI/CD automation, and configuration management standards
Provide technical leadership for Kafka and Event-Driven Architecture adoption
Define Kafka governance, partitioning strategies, resiliency patterns, schema management, monitoring, and capacity planning
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Guide engineering teams on microservices architecture, domain design, resiliency, API contracts, and operational readiness
Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities, templates, golden paths, and platform tooling
Embed Security by Design, identity management, vulnerability management, auditability, and operational excellence practices
Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Teams, Cyber Security, and SRE teams
Influence technical strategy and engineering decisions across CTO platform domains
To be successful in this role you should have
- Proven experience as a Senior Architect, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, Platform Architect, or equivalent
- Strong Private Cloud and Platform Engineering background
- Deep expertise in at least two of the following:
- VMware or Virtualization Technologies
- Kubernetes and Container Platforms
- Kafka/Event Streaming Platforms
- Strong Kubernetes experience including cluster operations, networking, upgrades, multitenancy, policy management, observability, and workload onboarding
- Strong Kafka architecture, operations, governance, security, and capacity planning experience
- Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, Networking, Fault Tolerance, Performance Tuning, and Capacity Planning
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD practices
- Strong understanding of Security Controls, Change Management, Risk Management, and Production Readiness
- Experience working in regulated enterprise environments
- Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills
- Excellent communication and architecture documentation capabilities
- Experience with Service Mesh technologies is desirable
- Knowledge of API Gateways, Secrets Management, and Policy as Code is preferred
- Experience with Observability platforms including Metrics, Logs, and Traces
- Experience building Platform-as-a-Product capabilities such as developer portals and self-service platforms
- Knowledge of Multi-Region, Active-Active, and Resilience Testing architectures is advantageous
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Skills
Mandatory Skills:
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- VMware and Virtualization
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