Position Overview
We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, and distributed systems. Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience.
Must-Have Skills:
- 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
- Strong hands-on Golang/Go development.
- Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
- Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
- Expert-level Kubernetes engineering.
- Hands-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
- Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
- Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture. Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation is highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.
- Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD are strong differentiators.
Pre-Screening Questions
- Q1: Do you have exp with Agentic AI?
- Q2: Do you have exp with Istio/Envoy?