Platform Architect

Siemens; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens is seeking a seasoned Platform Architect in Bengaluru to define and drive the architecture of a modern cloud-native platform. You will lead containerization, microservices, and multi-region deployment strategies across Azure, AKS, and Redis-based patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams to establish standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns. The role emphasizes security, scalability, and cross-region resilience.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years of software or platform engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall architecture and technical direction for the platform.
• Design scalable microservices-based architectures.
• Establish standards for containerized workloads and Kubernetes deployments.
• Define cloud architecture using Azure services and cloud-native design principles.
• Design secure and scalable multi-tenant architectures, including tenant isolation.
• Define multi-region deployment, failover, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies.
• Design caching and distributed state-management solutions using Redis.
• Establish standards for service communication, API design, asynchronous messaging, retries, resiliency, and fault handling.
• Define platform security patterns including identity, access control, secrets management, and workload isolation.
• Define observability standards for logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and service health.
• Guide Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automated platform deployment practices.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews and drive resolution of architectural risks and technical debt.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, design documentation, and architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native and distributed-system design practices.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

REST APIs

Event-driven

API gateways

Observability

Distributed systems

Redis

Tools

AKS

Azure Container Registry

Azure Service Bus

Redis

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Platform Architect to define and drive the architecture of a modern, cloud-native platform supporting scalable, secure, and resilient applications.

The role requires strong expertise in containerization, microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Redis, multi-tenant architecture, and cross-region deployment. Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.

The Platform Architect will work closely with engineering, DevOps/SRE, security, and product teams to establish platform standards, reference architectures, and reusable technical patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the overall architecture and technical direction for the platform.


• Design scalable and resilient microservices-based architectures.


• Establish standards for containerized workloads and Kubernetes deployments.


• Define cloud architecture using Azure services and cloud-native design principles.


• Design secure and scalable multi-tenant architectures, including tenant isolation and resource segregation.


• Define multi-region deployment, failover, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies.


• Design caching and distributed state-management solutions using Redis.


• Establish standards for service communication, API design, asynchronous messaging, retries, resiliency, and fault handling.


• Define platform security patterns including identity, access control, secrets management, and workload isolation.


• Define observability standards for logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and service health.


• Guide Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automated platform deployment practices.


• Conduct architecture and design reviews and drive resolution of architectural risks and technical debt.


• Create and maintain reference architectures, design documentation, and architecture decisions.


• Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native and distributed-system design practices.

Core Technical Skills

Must Have

Containerization

• Strong experience with Docker/OCI containers.


• Understanding of container lifecycle, security, networking, and image optimization.

Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on architectural knowledge of Kubernetes.


• Experience with:




• Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, and Ingress


• ConfigMaps and Secrets


• Autoscaling and resource management


• Persistent storage


• RBAC and network policies


• Cluster and workload high availability




• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preferred.

Microservices & Distributed Systems

• Strong understanding of:




• REST APIs and service-to-service communication


• Event-driven and asynchronous architectures


• API gateways


• Service decomposition


• Resiliency patterns


• Distributed transactions


• Eventual consistency


• Idempotency


• Fault tolerance and graceful degradation

Cloud Architecture

• Strong cloud architecture experience, preferably with Microsoft Azure.


• Familiarity with relevant Azure services such as:




• AKS


• Azure Container Registry


• Azure Front Door / Application Gateway


• Virtual Networks and Private Link


• Microsoft Entra ID


• Managed Identities


• Key Vault


• Azure Monitor / Application Insights


• Azure Storage


• Azure SQL or equivalent databases


• Azure Service Bus / Event Hubs


• Azure Managed Redis

Redis

• Experience designing Redis for:




• Distributed caching


• Session or transient state


• High availability


• Replication and clustering


• Cache invalidation


• Performance optimization

Multi-Tenant Architecture

• Experience designing SaaS or shared platforms with:




• Tenant isolation


• Identity and authorization boundaries


• Data and resource segregation


• Tenant provisioning


• Noisy-neighbor mitigation


• Tenant‑level monitoring and configuration

Multi-Region Architecture

• Experience designing:




• Regional deployment patterns


• Active-active and active-passive architectures


• Traffic routing


• Disaster recovery


• Regional failover


• Data replication


• RTO/RPO strategies

Preferred Skills

Experience in one or more of the following areas is desirable:

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep


• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions


• Helm and GitOps


• Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or Event Hubs


• OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana


• API Management and service mesh


• SQL and NoSQL databases


• Zero-trust and cloud security


• SRE and reliability engineering practices

Experience

• Typically 10+ years of software or platform engineering experience.


• At least 4–6 years of experience in cloud-native and distributed-system architecture.


• Proven experience architecting production platforms using Kubernetes and microservices.


• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems.

Key Architecture Competencies

The candidate should be able to evaluate architectural trade-offs such as:

• Shared vs dedicated tenant infrastructure


• Shared Kubernetes clusters vs tenant-specific clusters


• Database-per-tenant vs shared database models


• Stateless vs stateful services


• Synchronous APIs vs asynchronous messaging


• Active-active vs active-passive regional deployments


• Managed cloud services vs self-managed components


• Security and isolation vs infrastructure cost