Senior Kubernetes & Microservices Architect

Mphasis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Mphasis is seeking a Senior Kubernetes and Microservices Engineer to design, scale, and manage our core cloud-native infrastructure. The role focuses on AKS, complex networking, and high-availability traffic management, with leadership in best-practice patterns.

You will deploy, automate, and optimize across multi-region environments, driving reliability, security, and scalable architectures while guiding CI/CD processes and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in production Kubernetes management.
• 3+ years AKS design and configuration.
• Deep Kubernetes architecture understanding and primitives.
• Advanced networking and traffic management experience.
• CI/CD automation and proactive cluster monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Cluster Management: design, deploy, monitor, and manage AKS clusters.
• Traffic Engineering: analyze and configure complex networking layers.
• System Optimization: ensure reliability, security, and multi-region scalability.
• CI/CD Automation: build and maintain robust pipelines for deployments.
• Architectural Leadership: define Kubernetes best practices and core primitives.

Skills

Kubernetes

AKS

Azure

CI/CD

Networking

Automation & Ops

Traffic Management

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Istio

Linkerd

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Mphasis is seeking a Senior Kubernetes and Microservices Engineer to design, scale, and manage our core cloud-native infrastructure. The role focuses on AKS, complex networking, and high-availability traffic management, with leadership in best-practice patterns.

You will deploy, automate, and optimize across multi-region environments, driving reliability, security, and scalable architectures while guiding CI/CD processes and operational excellence.