Senior Platform Architect — Kubernetes & Cloud Native

Request Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Request Technology, LLC seeks a senior Platform Architect to lead design of core platform capabilities, including container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, and cloud architecture on AWS. You will own reference architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads and Kafka topologies, guiding migration to cloud-native patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering and operations to ensure designs are buildable, operable, and scalable, establishing GitOps models, observability standards, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in large-scale platform architecture.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, cloud and streaming data workloads experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and decision-making for core platform capabilities: container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, cloud architecture, CI/CD and
• GitOps pipelines, and observability
• Develop and maintain target-state platform architectures with clear transition plans from current state
• Own reference architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads, Kafka streaming topologies, Flink stream processing, and AWS infrastructure patterns
• Architect and guide migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, and security services
• Define GitOps model — infrastructure-as-code practices, pipeline standards, environment promotion, and configuration management at scale
• Evaluate and recommend platform technologies and tooling; lead proof-of-concept efforts to validate architectural decisions before commitment
• Establish observability standards — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting — as a platform-level capability, not an afterthought
• Partner with Application Architecture to ensure platform capabilities match application design requirements — particularly for high-throughput, low-latency clearing workloads
• Collaborate with Engineering and operations teams to ensure platform designs are buildable, operable, and supportable — not just theoretically sound
• Facilitate architecture working sessions with technical leads and business stakeholders; communicate platform decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

Platform governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Flux

ArgoCD

Terraform

Helm

Apache Flink

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Request Technology, LLC seeks a senior Platform Architect to lead design of core platform capabilities, including container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, and cloud architecture on AWS. You will own reference architectures for Kubernetes-based workloads and Kafka topologies, guiding migration to cloud-native patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering and operations to ensure designs are buildable, operable, and scalable, establishing GitOps models, observability standards, and