Platform Architect: Cloud-Native, Scalable & Secure

Good co India; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design and lead enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You will define architecture standards, roadmaps, and best practices while delivering secure, scalable, and highly available systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD practices, plus strong leadership across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud and technology platforms.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, with hands-on experience in cloud architecture and services.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Git, Linux, networking, load balancing, and automation.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and platform services.
• Strong knowledge of databases, caching, messaging systems, and data-storage technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead the architecture of scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient enterprise platforms.
• Define platform architecture, technology standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform solutions and technical roadmaps.
• Design and implement cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain containerized and Kubernetes-based platforms for application deployment and operations.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Design platform services supporting microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed applications.
• Drive platform scalability, reliability, performance, availability, and cost optimization.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

APIs & microservices

Distributed systems

Databases & caching

Observability tools

Security & IAM

Disaster recovery

Scripting (Python/Go)

Self-service platforms

Architectural thinking

Mentoring teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE/CE

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK stack

Job description

Good co India is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design and lead enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You will define architecture standards, roadmaps, and best practices while delivering secure, scalable, and highly available systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD practices, plus strong leadership across cross-functional teams.