Cloud Architect & Platform Lead: Kafka, AWS & Kubernetes

Solugenix; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Solugenix seeks a Cloud Architect/Principal Engineer to lead architecture, modernization, and operational excellence for scalable cloud-native platforms, with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. You will drive end-to-end architecture, mentor engineers, and own incident response, design patterns, and governance across teams in a dynamic environment.

This is a senior role in California with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalable solutions, offering

Qualifications

• 14+ years of software/platform engineering experience with architecture experience.
• Proven experience with large-scale distributed systems and production environments.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead end-to-end architecture for scalable, resilient cloud-native applications and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership for Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Design and optimize Kafka clusters, including HA, replication, partitioning, security, performance, monitoring, and DR.

Skills

Kafka

Spring Boot

AWS

Kubernetes

DevOps

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub/Harness

Datadog

Splunk

Prometheus/Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Solugenix seeks a Cloud Architect/Principal Engineer to lead architecture, modernization, and operational excellence for scalable cloud-native platforms, with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. You will drive end-to-end architecture, mentor engineers, and own incident response, design patterns, and governance across teams in a dynamic environment.

This is a senior role in California with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalable solutions, offering