Platform Architect – Internal Dev Platform & Kubernetes

Default Brand; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. in Tampa seeks a Technical Platform Architect to set the technical direction for Ashley's internal developer platform serving thousands of repos and multiple Kubernetes clusters.

This hands-on role writes code, reviews PRs, prototypes patterns, and earns trust through evidence-based decisions. You will mentor engineers, publish standards, and drive platform modernization with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field and equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering, incl. platform/infrastructure at enterprise scale.
• Ability to drive technical change across org without formal authority.
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale and cloud infra patterns.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Ashley's internal developer platform and its golden paths.
• Define and evolve enterprise standards for source control, CI/CD, IaC, containerization, observability, and deployment.
• Prototype and prove out new patterns before broad adoption; contribute to platform codebases and tooling.
• Make observability a platform property with standardized OpenTelemetry instrumentation and conventions.
• Mentor engineers and publish patterns and reference material for teams to act on without meetings.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Azure

GitOps

C#

PowerShell

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub Enterprise Cloud

ArgoCD

Crossplane

OpenTelemetry

IaC tooling

Job description

Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. in Tampa seeks a Technical Platform Architect to set the technical direction for Ashley's internal developer platform serving thousands of repos and multiple Kubernetes clusters.

This hands-on role writes code, reviews PRs, prototypes patterns, and earns trust through evidence-based decisions. You will mentor engineers, publish standards, and drive platform modernization with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and IaC practices.