Architect

Job Description

Were looking for a hands-on architect to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and performance. Youll lead the full lifecycle management of databasesautomating installs, upgrades, backups, and decommissionswhile actively contributing to open-source communities. This role involves driving security excellence by analyzing and remediating vulnerabilities (CVEs), conducting in-depth assessments using tools like Burp Suite and Anchore, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Youll optimize workloads for resilience, troubleshoot complex issues across OS, containers, and databases, and deliver production-ready solutions. Strong debugging, observability, and collaboration skills are essential. You have: Bachelor's or Master's Engineering degree or equivalent with Over 12 years of experience in databases and Kubernetes with deep expertise in architecture, automation, and secure deployments; expert in MariaDB, Cassandra, and Redis, including tuning and troubleshooting in production. Strong programming skills in Python for automation and tooling, with hands-on experience in containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, and custom Operators. Proven track record in Microservices architecture, container orchestration, virtualization, and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation. Advanced knowledge of security protocols (TLS, SSH), encryption standards, and secure design principles, with experience in threat modeling, system hardening, and security-by-design methodologies. Skilled in security assessments and tooling, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and robustness/DoS analysis using tools such as Anchore, Tenable, Netsparker, Codenomicon, and Nmap; familiarity with SBOM generation and integration in CI/CD workflows. It would be nice if you also had: Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi, along with GitOps workflows Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks, or OpenTelemetry for end-to-end observability, especially for performance tuning and incident response in distributed systems Design, deploy, and manage scalable, highly available MariaDB, Cassandra, and Redis databases within Kubernetes clusters, while continuously optimizing performance and reliability. Automate end-to-end lifecycle management workflowsincluding install, upgrade, backup, recovery, and decommissionwhile contributing technical improvements to open-source communities. Lead the response to security vulnerabilities across database stacks, collaborating with security and engineering teams to analyze, prioritize, and remediate CVEs. Conduct in-depth security assessments using tools like Burp Suite, Anchore, and Codenomicon, and map findings to risk levels to ensure compliance with security standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to deliver secure, production-ready database solutions, troubleshoot complex issues across the stack, and stay current with trends in Kubernetes, OSS, and cloud security.