Sr. Lead Platform Architect

This is a Hybrid opportunity in Chicago or Dallas that requires 2-3 days a week to work on site

Contract to Hire. Possible straight contract.

Primary Responsibilities

Sr. Lead Platform Architect will be responsible for:

Leading Architecture design and decision making or core platform capabilities including:

container orchestration streaming infrastructure cloud architecture CI/CD and GitOps pipelines and observabilities Transition to new platform mut be clearly defined

Must be proficient and own architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads, Kafka streaming,, Flink stream processing, and AWS infrastructure patterns

Architect and direct migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS

Technical Qualifications

Prefer Someone with solid DevOps background, or 10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or system architecture

Proficiency and Hands on experience with:

Kubernetes - workload design, networking, security, cluster architecture Apache Kafka for deployment, Apache Flink or similar stream processing AWS Architecture VPCs, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS Implementation of GitOps pipeline IaC, secret management promotions Rrelease automation with the help of Flux, ArgoCD, Terraform, or Helm