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Architect - Kubernetes Cloud Platform Engineering

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Marriott Bonvoy

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United States , Bethesda

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Not provided

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Salary:

117600.00 - 198800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • Experience designing and deploying Kubernetes clusters (e.g., OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE) from scratch using GitOps and automation
  • Proficiency in automating cluster provisioning and configuration using Terraform
  • Ability to configure control plane components, including networking (CNI), storage classes, RBAC, and pod security policies
  • Experience implementing multi-tenancy, namespace isolation, and resource quotas
  • Hands-on experience with Helm chart development and Kubernetes Operators
  • Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) for traffic routing, mTLS, and workload observability
  • Proven ability to modernize application platforms to support container-based microservices
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes, including GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)
  • Ownership of cluster lifecycle management, including upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
  • Integration of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) at the platform level
  • Implementation of platform-level security controls, including policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), secrets management (Vault), and IAM governance
  • Ability to enable developer self-service through platform tooling and automation
  • Experience supporting high-availability and fault-tolerant infrastructure for 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
  • 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
  • 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

Requirements:

  • 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
  • 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

Nice to have:

  • 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)
What we offer:
  • 401(k) plan
  • stock purchase plan
  • discounts at Marriott properties
  • commuter benefits
  • employee assistance plan
  • childcare discounts
  • medical, dental, vision coverage
  • health care flexible spending account
  • dependent care flexible spending account
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • accident insurance
  • adoption expense reimbursements
  • paid parental leave
  • educational assistance
  • paid sick leave
  • PTO
  • holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 02, 2026

Expiration:
January 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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