Principal Cloud & Kubernetes Architect – Disaster Recovery

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Cloud, Kubernetes & Disaster Recovery Architect to serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise‑wide strategy, governance, and architecture. This individual contributor role will define resilient hybrid‑cloud environments, establish standards, and advise leadership on scalability, operational risk, and disaster readiness.

Key responsibilities

• Define enterprise Kubernetes and container platform strategy across hybrid, multi‑cloud, and on‑premises environments.
• Develop reference architectures and standardized deployment patterns for microservices, data platforms, and analytics workloads.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code governance and reusable automation using Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design hybrid‑cloud infrastructure strategies that balance scalability, performance, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Lead enterprise‑wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on‑premises infrastructure.
• Architect multi‑region, multi‑cloud recovery solutions (active‑active, active‑passive, pilot‑light, warm‑standby).
• Set recovery objectives, governance frameworks, documentation standards, ownership models, and testing programs.
• Drive disaster recovery simulations, failover testing, risk assessments, and continuous improvement.
• Define resilience strategies for Kubernetes clusters, workloads, data platforms, backups, and critical infrastructure.
• Establish observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerting) and service reliability targets (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs).
• Implement security standards such as RBAC, encryption, secure recovery procedures, and zero‑trust architecture.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field (master’s preferred).
• 12+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, or platform engineering.
• Deep experience designing and operating Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong understanding of hybrid‑cloud, multi‑cloud, and on‑premises architectures.
• Proven leadership of enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy and execution.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Hybrid cloud
• Multi‑cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• ArgoCD
• Helm
• GitOps
• CI/CD pipelines
• Azure Site Recovery
• AWS disaster recovery services
• RBAC
• Encryption
• Zero‑trust architecture