Senior Cloud Kubernetes Platform Architect

InterSystems Corporation; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

401(k) Profit Sharing Contribution

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

InterSystems seeks a Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer to lead architecture and strategy for a cloud‑native platform across public clouds and on‑prem environments. You will drive platform scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience, partnering across infra, security, and application teams.

You will establish standards, guide architecture decisions, and deliver highly automated self‑service platforms for mission‑critical workloads, including multi‑region, multi‑cloud

Qualifications

• 12+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
• 7+ years hands‑on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Deep expertise designing and operating Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Advanced experience with GitOps methodologies and tools such as Argo CD, Flux, and Fleet.
• Expert‑level Terraform experience and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, networking, storage, security).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or Consul).
• Go, Python, or similar programming experience; platform automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Kubernetes platform roadmap and cloud‑native strategy.
• Architect multi‑cluster, multi‑region, and multi‑cloud Kubernetes platforms.
• Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps across engineering teams.
• Design self‑service provisioning capabilities for Kubernetes clusters and onboarding.
• Architect monitoring, observability, and incident response using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Establish security, governance, and compliance standards for platform services.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Go

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Istio

Cilium

Tools

Rancher

Spectro Cloud Palette

Portworx

Calico

OpenTelemetry

Job description

InterSystems seeks a Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer to lead architecture and strategy for a cloud‑native platform across public clouds and on‑prem environments. You will drive platform scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience, partnering across infra, security, and application teams.

You will establish standards, guide architecture decisions, and deliver highly automated self‑service platforms for mission‑critical workloads, including multi‑region, multi‑cloud