Platform Engineer Architect

Capgemini; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in software engineering is seeking an experienced professional to manage and define a standardized infrastructure platform catalog. The role involves enforcing architectural best practices, collaborating with engineering teams, and ensuring high availability through resilient design. Candidates should possess strong skills in platform architecture and infrastructure engineering, including experience with Kubernetes, SQL, and distributed messaging platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in platform architecture and infrastructure engineering.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale web hosting and container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and time-series databases.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage a standardized infrastructure platform catalog.
• Enforce architectural best practices and design standards.
• Collaborate with core infrastructure engineering teams.

Skills

Platform architecture

Infrastructure engineering

Kubernetes

Virtual machines

Container orchestration

SQL

NoSQL

Kafka

Networking

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Key Responsibilities:

• Define and manage a standardized infrastructure platform catalog.
• Enforce architectural best practices and design standards across engineering teams.
• Design for resiliency and define failure domains to ensure high availability.
• Collaborate with core infrastructure engineering teams to develop scalable platform solutions.
• Partner with embedded Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to scale platform architecture initiatives.

Required Skillsets:

• Strong experience in platform architecture and infrastructure engineering, including:
• Host Platforms: Experience with enterprise-scale web hosting and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes or similar).
• Compute: Proficiency in virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing.
• Storage: Familiarity with object and file storage systems.
• Databases: Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and time-series databases.
• Messaging Systems: Experience with distributed messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka, MQ).
• Observability: Understanding of logging, metrics, and tracing systems.
• Security: Implementation of authentication, secrets management, and audit logging.
• Networking: Experience with ingress controllers, service mesh, and DNS configurations.

Ref. code: 240268

Posted on: May 20, 2025

Experience Level: Experienced Professionals

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:

New York, US Atlanta, US

Brand: Capgemini

Professional Community: Software Engineering