Senior Go & Cloud-Native Architect — Remote Contract

VISION INFOTECH INC.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

VISION INFOTECH INC. is seeking a Principal Golang Architect for 100% remote contract work. The role demands hands-on leadership in cloud-native platforms, with deep Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS/EKS expertise to architect enterprise-grade solutions.

Candidates should demonstrate mastery in multi-cluster Kubernetes, Operator development, and robust observability, security, and reliability practices across distributed microservices environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
• Hands-on Golang development and architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
• Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
• Expert-level Kubernetes engineering including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
• Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
• Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.
• Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD.

Skills

Golang development

Kubernetes engineering

AWS / EKS

Distributed systems

CI/CD / GitOps

Multi-cluster / federation

Kubebuilder / Operator SDK

Terraform

Istio/Envoy

Kafka

Controller-Runtime

Tools

Docker

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

ArgoCD

Job description

VISION INFOTECH INC. is seeking a Principal Golang Architect for 100% remote contract work. The role demands hands-on leadership in cloud-native platforms, with deep Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS/EKS expertise to architect enterprise-grade solutions.

Candidates should demonstrate mastery in multi-cluster Kubernetes, Operator development, and robust observability, security, and reliability practices across distributed microservices environments.