Staff Cloud Native Architect
Supermetrics
We’re looking for a Staff Cloud Native Architect to join our Infrastructure team in Helsinki HQ. You can also work remotely from Finland.
In this role, you will…
- Act as a key technical leader for all cloud-related matters.
- Serve as an ambassador between our Internal Platform and its users across Product & Development.
- Guide our technical strategy using your deep knowledge in Kubernetes, cloud architectures, and software development.
- Ensure our platform is a robust, reliable, and secure foundation for future growth.
- Focus on solving complex distributed systems challenges.
Your day-to-day work and responsibilities include…
- Act as the subject matter expert for our cloud-native platform, adapting industry practices for Kubernetes, public cloud, security, and distributed systems to our particular challenges.
- Guide and support the shift from our old monolithic apps to modern, Kubernetes-based services.
- Help shape the long-term vision and build our scalable, multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Improve how we observe system and application performance, with a focus on our use of OpenTelemetry and the various observability platforms we send our signals to.
- Advice on choosing, scaling and generally managing databases across our stack, running PoCs to expand our internal self-service offering as required.
- Evolve the strategy for our Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and GitOps practices, researching and supporting self-service patterns (e.g. using Backstage) to empower developers.
- Research and test new technologies to improve developer experience and platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams in company wide projects that require deep cloud/Kubernetes expertise.
Technologies you’ll be using…
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Contour, Terraform, Crossplane
- Cloud Providers: AWS & GCP
- Database Systems: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, ClickHouse
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Elastic Stack
- Development & Scripting: Go, Python, Bash, GitHub Cloud/Enterprise
- Other Services: Aiven, Redis Co., Cloudflare
This position is for you if you have…
- Experience in effectively designing and operating large-scale cloud environments in a platform, SRE, or architecture team.
- Deep experience architecting complex, distributed systems, thinking in patterns and long-term strategy.
- Guided teams through breaking down monolithic apps and moving them to Kubernetes.
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, including networking and security across clouds.
- Direct experience with tools like VictoriaMetrics/Elastic and OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts, inference workloads, and agent frameworks.
- A solid background in software development (Go, Python) with the ability to prototype and write quality code.
- Experience deploying and running modern databases (relational and NoSQL) in production in cloud native environments (with a preference for Kubernetes).
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and promoting self-service (e.g., Backstage).
- Been able to explain complex tech to anyone and guided technical direction for whole products in a SaaS company.
- Dedicated to diving into tough technical problems and finding pragmatic solutions.
Nice to have…
- Experience building and promoting a "platform-as-a-product" for internal developer customers.
- Experience with cloud financial management (FinOps) and architecting for cost-efficiency.
- Deep knowledge in cloud security, including threat modeling, network security, and identity management.
- Experience designing and developing reusable, scalable IaC (Terraform modules, Crossplane Compositions) for a wide audience.
- A history of contributing to open-source projects in the cloud-native space.
Benefits we offer…
- Competitive compensation package, including equity
- Great work equipment, and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations
- Health care benefit and leisure time insurance
- Sports and wellbeing allowance
Benefits may vary depending on location.
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