Remote Cloud-Native Architect - Microservices & Kubernetes

Bright Vision Technologies; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Cloud-Native Architect with 10+ years of software engineering background to lead architecture and modernization of enterprise-scale applications. You will drive cloud-native platforms, microservices, and distributed systems using Kubernetes, containers, and modern automation.

The role focuses on setting engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical excellence across multiple teams, enabling scalable, secure, and resilient

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with architecture focus.
• Deep expertise in microservices, DDD, and distributed patterns.
• Hands‑on with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native platforms.
• Proficient in one or more backend languages such as Java, Go, C#, or Python.
• IaC experience with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise microservices architecture standards.
• Lead modernization of legacy monolithic apps into cloud-native services.
• Design secure, resilient distributed systems using REST, gRPC, async messaging.
• Establish API governance, schema management, versioning strategies.
• Architect resilient systems with circuit breakers, retries, CQRS, Event Sourcing.
• Define data ownership and scalable persistence architectures.
• Design cloud-native platform capabilities including Kubernetes, service mesh, and API gateways.
• Drive performance, scalability planning and system reliability across services.
• Establish CI/CD, GitOps, IaC, automated testing and deployment strategies.
• Define observability standards with tracing, logging, metrics, and SLO/SLI.

Skills

10+ years experience

Microservices

DDD

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Docker

Java/Go/C#/Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

API design

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi/CF/Bicep)

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Bicep

Argo CD

Flux

Istio

Envoy

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Cloud-Native Architect with 10+ years of software engineering background to lead architecture and modernization of enterprise-scale applications. You will drive cloud-native platforms, microservices, and distributed systems using Kubernetes, containers, and modern automation.

The role focuses on setting engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical excellence across multiple teams, enabling scalable, secure, and resilient