Golang Architect

VISION INFOTECH INC.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

VISION INFOTECH INC. is seeking a Principal Golang Architect for 100% remote contract work. The role demands hands-on leadership in cloud-native platforms, with deep Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS/EKS expertise to architect enterprise-grade solutions.

Candidates should demonstrate mastery in multi-cluster Kubernetes, Operator development, and robust observability, security, and reliability practices across distributed microservices environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
• Hands-on Golang development and architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
• Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
• Expert-level Kubernetes engineering including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
• Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
• Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.
• Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD.

Skills

Golang development

Kubernetes engineering

AWS / EKS

Distributed systems

CI/CD / GitOps

Multi-cluster / federation

Kubebuilder / Operator SDK

Terraform

Istio/Envoy

Kafka

Controller-Runtime

Tools

Docker

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

ArgoCD

Job description

Role: Principal Golang Architect

Location: 100% Remote

Position: Contract

We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), and distributed systems. Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms---not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience.

Must-Have Skills:

• 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
• Strong hands-on Golang/Go development and Architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
• Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
• Expert-level Kubernetes engineering.
• Hands-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
• Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
• Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.
• Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD.

Pre-Screening Questions

• Q1: Does the candidate have strong hands-on experience developing and architecting enterprise-scale applications/platforms using Golang (Go), Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, rather than only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration?
• Q2: Does the candidate have hands-on expert-level Kubernetes engineering experience, including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime, or Operator SDK?
• Q3: Does the candidate have hands-on experience architecting AWS/EKS-based enterprise distributed systems and microservices, including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and production troubleshooting?
• Q4: Does the candidate have hands-on experience integrating Agentic AI, RAG, MCP, or LLM-based capabilities with cloud-native platforms or distributed systems?

Recruiter Contact

VISION INFOTECH INC

368 Main Street, st#3, Melrose MA 02176