Kubernetes/Container Architect (m/w/d) – Winterthur Area

NTT DATA, Inc.; Winterthur; Vor Ort; CHF 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

NTT DATA, Inc. in Winterthur, Switzerland seeks an experienced Kubernetes/Container Architect to provide technical leadership for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise container platforms.

You will ensure security, scalability, resilience, and alignment with infrastructure standards, acting as a senior authority for escalations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive service mesh, storage, networking, and platform integration, while establishing best practices and

Qualifikationen

• Must design and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms with strong security and governance.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, orchestration, networking, and storage integration.
• Able to lead architectural escalations and provide senior technical guidance.

Aufgaben

• Design, govern, and evolve enterprise Kubernetes clusters and container platforms.
• Maintain highly available control planes and scalable architectures.
• Lead decisions on service mesh, storage, security, and platform integration.
• Establish governance, patterns, and best practices for container environments.
• Provide technical leadership for complex incidents and escalations.
• Collaborate with infra, cloud, networking, security teams to align with enterprise objectives.
• Drive cloud-native adoption and continuous improvement.
• Produce architecture documentation and standards.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes architecture

Container platforms

High availability design

Security & governance

Incident leadership

Jobbeschreibung

We are seeking an experienced Kubernetes/Container Architect to provide technical leadership for Kubernetes and container platform architecture. The role is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise container platforms, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with overall infrastructure and cloud architecture standards. As a senior technical authority, you will support complex escalations and define architectural best practices across the platform landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and govern Kubernetes cluster architectures and container platform standards.
• Define and maintain highly available and resilient Kubernetes control-plane architectures.
• Lead architecture decisions related to service mesh integration, storage integration, networking, security, and platform scalability.
• Establish operational patterns, governance frameworks, and best practices for containerized environments.
• Provide technical leadership for complex incidents, escalations, and platform challenges.
• Ensure platform security, compliance, reliability, and performance requirements are consistently met.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, networking, storage, and security teams to align container platforms with enterprise architecture objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and support the adoption of emerging cloud-native technologies.
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and operational guidance.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, container orchestration, platform security, networking, and storage integration.
• Experience with high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resilience design principles.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, service meshes, observability, and platform governance.
• Proven ability to support complex technical escalations and provide architectural leadership.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Certifications:

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Cloud-native architecture certifications focused on Kubernetes design, resilience, and security
• Additional Security, Network, Storage, or Compute infrastructure certifications are advantageous

Language Requirement:

• German language proficiency at minimum B2 level is mandatory.
• The role requires the ability to participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, incident coordination, service reviews, change management activities, and day-to-day communication with German-speaking stakeholders, customers, and operational teams.
• Applicants must hold Swiss citizenship.

Location:

• Candidates should be based in, or regularly available within the Winterthur region to support customer engagement, operational alignment, coordination with onsite and remote-hands teams, and participation in architecture, governance, escalation, and service review meetings as required.