Platform Engineer Architect
Capgemini
Software Engineering, IT
United States
Posted on May 20, 2025
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and manage a standardized infrastructure platform catalog.
- Enforce architectural best practices and design standards across engineering teams.
- Design for resiliency and define failure domains to ensure high availability.
- Collaborate with core infrastructure engineering teams to develop scalable platform solutions.
- Partner with embedded Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to scale platform architecture initiatives.
Required Skillsets:
- Strong experience in platform architecture and infrastructure engineering, including:
- Host Platforms: Experience with enterprise-scale web hosting and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes or similar).
- Compute: Proficiency in virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing.
- Storage: Familiarity with object and file storage systems.
- Databases: Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and time-series databases.
- Messaging Systems: Experience with distributed messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka, MQ).
- Observability: Understanding of logging, metrics, and tracing systems.
- Security: Implementation of authentication, secrets management, and audit logging.
- Networking: Experience with ingress controllers, service mesh, and DNS configurations.