Architect Kubernetes Cloud Platform Engineering

JOB SUMMARY

The Architect of Kubernetes Cloud Platform Engineering will lead engineering delivery and operations to design deploy and scale containerized platforms and CI/CD ecosystems. This role defines the Kubernetes platform architecture and acts as a hands-on engineer to turn vision into reality. Supported by a team of engineers the ideal candidate has led large scale Platform-as-a-Service solutions and excels at setting technical direction while breaking delivery into actionable components.

We are transforming the way technology is managed at Marriott. Kubernetes automation and GitOps-driven DevSecOps has become the new standard to enable rapid iteration speed-to-market and proactive security and operations. With leaders experienced in driving this transformation we seek engineers passionate about evolving the organization and setting the gold standard for container orchestration and secure automation. We continue to transform how we run Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment so thought leadership and the ability to bring others along are key.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Required:

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification

• 8 years of progressive technology experience with a blend of deep technical knowledge and a customer-focused mindset that includes:

• 5 years in an engineering role as a strategic thinker that relates technology solutions to customer use cases

• 4 years experience with Public Cloud technology stacks such as AWS Azure GCP or Alibaba.

• 4 years experience with containers Kubernetes solution design deployment management and orchestration across multi-cloud environment

• 5 years experience driving highly technical architecture and driving outcomes with automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm

• 3 years experience building and operating CI/CD build deploy release automation through pipelines

• Delivery focused with experience in Kanban

Preferred:

• Ability to design end-to-end architecture that supports 99.99% service availability with performance and cost considerations

• Familiarity with cloud native database technologies (Amazon RDS Aurora Keyspaces DocumentDB Redis/Elasticache Azure CosmosDB)

• Familiarity with distributed systems such as Kafka Couchbase Cassandra etc.

• Familiarity with Go Rust and/or Python

• Exposure to Service Mesh technologies such as Istio Linkerd or Consul Connect

• Excellent technical knowledge of current & emerging infrastructure systems & standards

• Strong knowledge of the best available tools software applications and systems for attaining best-in-class technology platforms across the enterprise.

• Ability to create constructive relationships influence and communicate (to product team engineering management and non-technical staff).

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Full ownership of the Kubernetes platform lifecycle Provisioning automation and modernization.

• Operationally responsible for enterprise Kubernetes platform serving in oncall rotation and as an escalation point of contact for any platform outages

• Experiencedesigning and deploying Kubernetes clusters(e.g. OpenShift EKS AKS GKE) from scratchusing GitOps and automation

• Proficiency inautomating cluster provisioning and configurationusing Terraform

• Ability toconfigure control plane components including networking (CNI) storage classes RBAC and pod security policies

• Experience implementingmulti-tenancynamespace isolation andresource quotas

• Hands-on experience withHelm chart developmentand Kubernetes Operators

• Familiarity withservice mesh technologies(e.g. Istio) for traffic routing mTLS and workload observability

• Proven ability tomodernize application platformsto support container-based microservices

• Experience buildingCI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes including GitOps workflows (e.g. ArgoCD Flux)

• Ownership ofcluster lifecycle management including upgrades patching backup/restore and disaster recovery

• Integration ofmonitoring and observability tools(e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry) at the platform level

• Implementation ofplatform-level security controls including policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper) secrets management (Vault) and IAM governance

• Ability to enabledeveloper self-servicethrough platform tooling and automation

• Experience supportinghigh-availability and fault-tolerant infrastructurefor mission-critical workloads

• Serve as technical lead for a team of the Kubernetes engineers providing technical guidance mentoring and fostering a collaborative environment

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as software engineers system administrators and security teams to ensure the alignment of security requirements throughout the development process.

• Deploy automate maintain and manage cloud infrastructure to ensure security performance and availability of production systems

• Code solutions to continuously improve products and solutions to be scalable and highly available

• Review issues logs and metrics to identify trends and solutions that should be implemented

• Maintain in-depth documentation of activities and system configuration.

• Perform troubleshooting resolution and problem analysis.

• Participate in architectural discussions to help Application Teams make the most efficient choices.

• Leads the big picture of challenges impacting the customer experience including the technical functional and process considerations and creatively defines the D&O strategy to address those challenges.

• Develops and communicates a point of view on complex technical topics. Aligns multiple domains both technical and non-technical on this common vision.

• Creates and articulates an innovative and compelling value proposition so that MI executives clearly realize the benefits and transformational value of automation.

• Interviews talent provides peer reviews/feedback frequently and fosters a modern engineering culture

Managing Product Priorities

• Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.

• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize organize and accomplish work.

• Champions leaders vision for product and service delivery.

• Determines priorities schedules plans and necessary resources to promote feature completion.

• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

• Thinks creatively and practically to develop execute and implement new products features and enhancements.

Providing Technical Support and Consultation

• Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.

• Provides and helps implement recommendations to improve the effectiveness of solutions processes and products.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues products systems and processes.

• Applies knowledge/judgment to resolve problems and achieve business goals.

• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.

• Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.