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Nutanix is seeking a Senior Staff Consulting Architect for Cloud Native Services to provide senior technical leadership in the architecture, design, and transformation of enterprise Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. This role is for a highly experienced cloud-native architect who will serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior customer stakeholders, lead complex strategic platform transformation initiatives, and define scalable architecture standards across large distributed environments.
Key responsibilities include:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategic Advisory: Provide end-to-end architecture leadership for complex enterprise Kubernetes and cloud-native transformation programs. Define strategic platform architectures spanning Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, bare metal, public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and edge infrastructure. Lead architecture strategy for large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and translate business, application, infrastructure, security, and operational requirements into scalable architectures. Define target-state architectures and multi-phase transformation roadmaps.
Advanced Kubernetes & Platform Architecture: Architect enterprise NKP platforms at scale, including multi-cluster and fleet architectures, multi-tenancy, high availability, disaster recovery, and cluster lifecycle management. Design advanced Kubernetes networking, storage, ingress/egress, and load-balancing architectures. Define virtualization-aware Kubernetes platforms and architecture patterns for GPU-enabled and AI/ML workloads. Architect integration between Kubernetes and enterprise services including DNS, LDAP/Active Directory, PKI, load balancers, backup/DR, and monitoring.
Complex Transformation & Delivery Leadership: Provide technical leadership for high-value customer engagements from Day-0 architecture through Day-2 operations. Lead architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, and design reviews. Provide technical oversight for platform deployment, cluster onboarding, application migration, and modernization. Act as senior technical escalation point for critical architecture challenges and ensure architectural decisions translate into practical, repeatable implementation patterns.
Automation, GitOps & Platform Engineering: Define enterprise automation strategies for Kubernetes and infrastructure platforms. Establish standardized GitOps and CI/CD operating models using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, Tekton, and Flux CD. Design Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and Ansible. Drive adoption of platform engineering principles and developer experience practices.
Security, Governance, Resilience & Operations: Define enterprise security architecture across infrastructure, Kubernetes, and application layers. Establish security and governance models covering RBAC, network policies, Pod Security Standards, secrets management, and Policy-as-Code. Design policy frameworks using OPA/Gatekeeper. Define enterprise approaches for observability, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Required expertise: Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, virtualization, platform engineering, CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code is mandatory. The role involves mentoring Staff and Consulting Architects and raising overall cloud-native capability within the consulting organization.
