Platform Architect

We are seeking a Platform Architect to lead the migration of an existing on-premises Kubernetes platform to the LightOps platform, supporting subsea production and monitoring use cases across a set of microservices, event-driven processing services, graph-based process modeling services, time-series ingestion services and frontend applications

Responsibilities

• Review the target architecture and validate the migration strategy
• Identify risks and gaps within the current platform landscape
• Refine resource requirements and define migration workstreams
• Establish the migration roadmap and sequencing
• Familiarize with the current landscape to inform planning decisions
• Interview and evaluate additional consultants to support delivery
• Influence the final composition of the delivery team
• Guide execution of specific workstreams through the adoption team

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in Kubernetes platform engineering including Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Expertise in ArgoCD and Kubernetes security practices across multi-service platform migrations
• Hands-on experience in Istio, Gateway management and Authorization Policies for service mesh implementations
• Skills in traffic routing and service-to-service communication within service mesh architectures
• Experience in HashiCorp Vault and secret management practices
• Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth2 and zero-trust architectures
• Background in leading platform adoption programs, Kubernetes modernization initiatives and complex application migrations

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kafka, Strimzi and PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of Cassandra, KEDA and Prometheus
• Understanding of Grafana, OpenTelemetry and Coraza WAF
• Background in Operational Readiness programs and SRE practices