Hybrid Cloud Platform Architect – Kubernetes & DevOps Leader

Expedite Talent Solutions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedite Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Technology Architect specializing in cloud platform engineering and enterprise‑scale automation. The role focuses on Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure environments.

The ideal candidate will lead production deployments, implement observability solutions, and collaborate with Dev, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Application Support.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift 4.x, EKS, AKS, Docker, Helm, kubectl, and oc CLI.
• Strong experience provisioning and managing AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, ELB, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Azure platform services including AKS, ACR, Azure DevOps, and Key Vault.
• Strong experience developing and executing Ansible playbooks for provisioning, configuration management, OS patching, and deployments.
• Extensive CI/CD experience using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Tekton.
• Strong troubleshooting experience across Kubernetes workloads including CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, PVC mount failures, ingress issues, and pod/node resource issues.
• Experience in monitoring, logging, and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
• Experience supporting production platforms, incident management, root cause analysis, runbook creation, and on‑call support.
• Experience working with Linux servers including RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu environments.
• Experience with middleware and application platforms including Apache Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly, WebLogic, and IBM MQ.
• Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum teams using JIRA, ServiceNow, and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, and AKS platforms across Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Build and maintain Docker images, container registries, Helm charts, and Kubernetes objects including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Ingress resources.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, ELB, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Create and execute Ansible playbooks and roles for server provisioning, application deployments, OS patching, configuration management, and environment automation using Ansible Tower/AWX.
• Build, support, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Bitbucket Pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Monitor platform and application health using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, Datadog, and AWS CloudWatch; perform RCA and support P1/P2 incident resolution.
• Support cloud migrations, container platform operations, production deployments, rollback activities, release management, and change management processes.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

GitOps

Linux

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Bitbucket Pipelines

ArgoCD

Tekton

EKS

AKS

AWS CloudWatch

ELK Stack

Job description

Expedite Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Technology Architect specializing in cloud platform engineering and enterprise‑scale automation. The role focuses on Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure environments.

The ideal candidate will lead production deployments, implement observability solutions, and collaborate with Dev, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure platform reliability.