As the Principal System Architect, you will be at the forefront of our next-generation software development. Your expertise will drive the creation of a highly scalable, cloud-native platform and build and mature differentiated Lifecycle Management (LCM) capabilities using GitOps principles. You will lead a team, set architectural standards, and ensure the platform's success and customer adoption.
Responsibilities- Own and drive the architectural blueprint and AI-led software development for the AN cloud native platform and it's lifecycle management.
- Architect and implement the enterprise GitOps strategy, defining declarative state models, multi-cluster continuous reconciliation loops, and automated promotion patterns.
- Design end-to-end container lifecycle management frameworks, covering secure base image governance, dynamic build pipelines, admission control, runtime orchestration, and ephemeral environment provisioning.
- Establish self-healing platform patterns where drifts from the desired Git state are automatically detected and corrected without human intervention.
- Create robust rollback and progressive delivery strategies (e.g., Canary, Blue/Green) managed completely via GitOps operators.
- Ensure the platform's scalability, performance, and reliability meet industry standards.
- Partner with product management and cross-functional teams to align platform development with business goals.
- Champion AI-led/Spec driven development, conduct code reviews and ensure best practices are followed throughout development.
- Document and communicate architectural decisions and strategies effectively.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks and challenges during the platform's evolution.
You have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.15+ years of product development experience, with a proven track record of owning, shipping, and maintaining large-scale software products throughout their operational lifecycle.
- Direct experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Cursor or GitHub Copilot, automated testing/linting agents) to accelerate development of pipelines and platform delivery.
- Expert-level hands-on experience architecting production-grade infrastructure using GitOps tools such as ArgoCD/Flux, with advanced knowledge of Kubernetes multi-tenancy, cluster management, OCI standards, container runtimes, and secure software supply chains.
- Kubernetes Internals: Strong expertise in writing custom K8s operators, controllers, and managing complex service mesh layers (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) via declarative configurations.
Nice to have
- Deep expertise in Event-Driven Architectures utilizing high-throughput pub-sub systems.
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Our recruitment process
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If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.
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