Nutanix

Senior Staff Consulting Architect- Cloud Native

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Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end architecture for complex enterprise Kubernetes and cloud-native transformation programs.
  • Architect large-scale Nutanix Kubernetes Platform environments, including multi-cluster, multi-tenant, highly available, secure, and resilient platforms.
  • Define platform, networking, storage, virtualization, security, governance, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and operational architectures.
  • Lead architecture workshops, technical discovery, design reviews, transformation planning, implementation oversight, and senior technical escalations.
  • Establish enterprise automation, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, platform engineering, self-service infrastructure, and developer experience practices.
  • Create reference architectures, reusable delivery patterns, technical playbooks, enablement programs, and consulting assets.
  • Mentor Staff Consulting Architects, Consulting Architects, and technical consultants while serving as a technical authority for the consulting organization.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Support, customers, and industry communities to provide technical input and thought leadership.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience across infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, Kubernetes, platform engineering, or related technologies.
  • Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including multi-cluster, highly available, resilient, and secure environments.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, troubleshooting, lifecycle management, networking, storage, security, ingress/egress, and load balancing.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, bare-metal infrastructure, enterprise infrastructure architecture, Terraform, and Ansible.
  • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and GitOps platforms and working with Kubernetes, infrastructure, and automation APIs.
  • Expertise in load balancers, SSL/TLS, certificate management, LDAP/Active Directory, DNS, backup and disaster recovery, and enterprise observability.
  • Ability to lead complex technical engagements, architecture decisions, executive discussions, and customer-facing consulting activities.
  • Experience with AKS, Amazon EKS, hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, fleet management, platform engineering, service meshes, GPU-enabled Kubernetes, AI/ML platforms, operators, application modernization, FinOps, or product strategy is advantageous.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent discipline is required; a relevant master's degree and listed professional certifications are preferred.
  • Excellent consulting, presentation, executive communication, mentoring, technical leadership, and influence-without-authority skills.

Benefits

  • Work from the office in Pune.
  • Travel as required for customer assignments.
  • Willingness to work US and EMEA shifts based on customer and engagement requirements.

Tech Stack

AnsibleArgo CDAWSAzureGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsKubernetesTektonTerraform

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Nutanix

5,001-10,000 employees

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes. Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media @nutanix.

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