Software Architect

Nokia; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia in Bengaluru seeks a seasoned Software Architect with 12+ years of experience to shape cloud-native observability platforms. The role focuses on scalability, reliability and operational excellence while guiding architecture and technology strategy across product teams.

You will lead end-to-end design, drive DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-based deployments, and mentor engineers to deliver resilient, high-performance software solutions leveraging AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with 12+ years of deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and platforms.
• Strong hands-on Golang experience and backend system design.
• Experience with large-scale data ingestion, ETL and streaming architectures (Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics).
• Deep knowledge of observability, telemetry, monitoring, and analytics platforms (OpenTelemetry, PromQL).
• Proven leadership in architecture strategy, RCA, and mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture and technology strategy for cloud-native observability platform components.
• Lead end-to-end architectural design from concept to deployment and lifecycle management.
• Resolve complex production incidents, perform RCA, and implement long-term resilience improvements.
• Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, and Kubernetes-based deployment models.

Skills

Kubernetes

Golang

Cloud-native

Data streaming

Observability

DevSecOps

Tech leadership

Education

Engineering Degree

Tools

OpenShift

Kafka

Prometheus

Jenkins

Helm

Job description

We are looking for a seasoned Software Architect with 12+ years of experience in architecting and evolving cloud-native software platforms. As a key technical leader in the hands-on role, you will drive the architecture and technology strategy for our observability solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. You will provide architectural guidance across product teams, champion engineering best practices, and foster innovation through the adoption of modern technologies, automation, AI-driven capabilities, and cloud-native principles. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong technical depth, and the ability to influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and customer organizations.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Define and drive the architecture and technology strategy for cloud-native observability platform component, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Lead the end-to-end architectural design and evolution of software solutions, providing technical direction from concept through implementation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Drive the resolution of complex customer-reported issues and critical production incidents, lead root cause analysis (RCA), and establish long-term architectural improvements to enhance system resilience, maintainability, and customer experience.
• Champion engineering best practices, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-based platforms to improve product quality, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering, agentic automation frameworks, and observability innovations, to accelerate delivery and create strategic business value.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentorship across engineering teams while collaborating with product, engineering, operations, and customer-facing stakeholders to align technology decisions with business and customer objectives.

Qualifications

You have:

• Engineering Degree with 12+ years of Deep expertise in Cloud-Native Architectures, including Kubernetes (CRDs, Operators, Controllers), OpenShift, Microservices, Distributed Systems, and Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience in Golang and building highly scalable, resilient, and performance-critical backend systems.
• Proven experience designing large-scale data ingestion, ETL, event-driven, and streaming architectures using technologies such as Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, and MariaDB.
• Strong knowledge of Observability, Telemetry, Monitoring, and Analytics platforms, including OpenTelemetry, OTLP, OpAMP, PromQL/VMQL, and large-scale metrics processing.
• Experience defining architecture for high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, automation, RCA, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics solutions.
• Deep understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Automation, Helm, Jenkins, and Kubernetes-based deployment and operations models.
• Proven technical leadership in driving architecture strategy, technology adoption, customer issue resolution, and mentoring engineering teams, including adoption of AI-assisted engineering and Agentic AI frameworks.

Good to have :

• Knowledge of Telecom Networks, SNMP, 3GPP standards, and Network Function Management with the ability to model and correlate operational, fault, performance, and configuration data.