Senior Cloud Architect: Kubernetes, AKS/EKS & Reliability

TechDigital Group; Lake Forest (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group seeks a visionary R&D Architect to advance the CONNECT Platform’s reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. You will work with COI, system test, and execution teams to address complex architectural challenges across Kubernetes, AKS, Azure, and multi-cloud deployment.

You will research, validate, and evangelize patterns for workload scheduling, auto-scaling, cost control, and disaster recovery, plus champion observability and IaC practices with Terraform, Bicep, Prometheus,

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead cloud-scale architectures and teams.
• Experience researching and prototyping architectural patterns for reliability and scale.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes control plane, scheduling, service mesh, and resource management.
• Strong background in multi-cloud (Azure AKS, AWS EKS) deployment and cost-aware design.

Responsibilities

• Define and validate advanced architectural patterns for operating our platform at scale.
• Collaborate with COI, system test and execution teams to address reliability, availability, performance, scale and cost.
• Lead proofs-of-concept and enablement efforts to spread best practices across teams.

Skills

Collaborative Leadership

Research & Prototyping

Kubernetes

Azure AKS

AWS EKS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD & GitOps

Observability

Distributed Systems

Tools

Kubernetes (AKS)

AWS EKS

Terraform

Bicep

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Azure Monitor

Job description

TechDigital Group seeks a visionary R&D Architect to advance the CONNECT Platform’s reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. You will work with COI, system test, and execution teams to address complex architectural challenges across Kubernetes, AKS, Azure, and multi-cloud deployment.

You will research, validate, and evangelize patterns for workload scheduling, auto-scaling, cost control, and disaster recovery, plus champion observability and IaC practices with Terraform, Bicep, Prometheus,