STAFIDE
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Recruiter Assigned aswin.d@stafide.nl
- Industry Technology
- Function DevOps / Infrastructure
- Work Experience 6-8 years
- City Amsterdam
- Country Netherlands
As an Enterprise Kubernetes Architect, you will:
- Define, govern, and promote enterprise-wide Kubernetes architecture standards and best practices.
- Act as a technical ambassador for the central platform team's architectural guidelines across multiple business and technology domains.
- Collaborate with system architects, domain architects, platform engineers, and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise container platform strategies.
- Drive the adoption and optimization of Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and Azure cloud environments.
- Review, challenge, and influence architectural decisions to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Design and enhance container orchestration frameworks supporting enterprise-scale applications and services.
- Provide architectural guidance on Kubernetes cluster design, workload management, networking, security, observability, and platform governance.
- Support cloud transformation initiatives by enabling standardized Kubernetes practices across diverse technology landscapes.
- Participate in architecture reviews, platform assessments, roadmap planning, and technology governance activities.
- Advocate DevOps, Agile, cloud-native, and platform engineering principles across development and operations teams.
- Work closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for platform modernization, automation, and operational efficiency improvements.
What You Bring to the Table:
- 6+ years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or enterprise architecture roles.
- Extensive hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong experience designing and supporting Kubernetes platforms across both on-premises and Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
- Deep understanding of containerization technologies, cloud-native architectures, and microservices platforms.
- Experience defining enterprise platform standards, governance frameworks, and architectural best practices.
- Strong knowledge of platform security, scalability, resilience, networking, and operational management.
- Experience working with DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and Agile delivery models.
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate with multiple architecture and engineering teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
You Should Possess the Ability to:
- Design and govern enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native architectures.
- Influence architectural decisions across multiple teams and organizational domains.
- Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable platform solutions.
- Drive adoption of standardized engineering and operational practices.
- Evaluate existing environments and recommend modernization and optimization strategies.
- Balance governance requirements with engineering agility and innovation.
- Communicate architectural concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and platform strategy initiatives.
- Work independently while managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
What We Bring to the Table:
- Opportunity to shape and influence enterprise-wide Kubernetes and cloud platform strategy.
- Exposure to large-scale cloud transformation and platform modernization programs.
- A collaborative environment focused on engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Engagement with senior architects, platform teams, and technology leaders across multiple business domains.
- Opportunities to drive cloud-native adoption and enterprise architecture best practices.
- Challenging technical initiatives involving modern platform engineering, automation, and cloud technologies.
Let’s Connect
Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.
Recruiter: Aswin Dhanvandhar
Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn :141
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