Enterprise Kubernetes Architect

Fixed Term Employment | GeekSoft Consulting | Netherlands

Posted On 24.06.2026

Technology

Work Experience 10+ years

State/Province Noord-Holland

City Amsterdam

1011

• Help design, build and continuously improve the clients online platform.
• Research, suggest and implement new technology solutions following best practices/standards.
• Take responsibility for the resiliency and availability of different products.
• Be a productive member of the team.

• Experienced Enterprise Kubernetes Architect with a strong background in designing, governing, and optimizing Kubernetes platforms across complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to act as a strategic advisor and advocate for platform standards, ensuring alignment with architectural principles established by central platform teams.
• Implement Kubernetes platform standards, best practices, and governance frameworks defined by the central platform team.
• Collaborate closely with system architects, domain architects, and engineering teams across multiple business units, clusters, and CIO streams to drive architectural consistency and adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and challenge architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and operationally efficient Kubernetes solutions.
• Design, review, and optimize Kubernetes architectures across hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.
• Promote platform engineering principles, operational excellence, automation, and cloud-native best practices throughout the organization.
• Support modernization initiatives and guide teams in adopting enterprise Kubernetes capabilities and standards.
• Extensive hands‑on experience architecting and managing enterprise Kubernetes environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes across both on‑premises and Azure public cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures, containerization, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively at both technical and leadership levels.
• Proven experience driving architectural governance, standards adoption, and cross‑functional collaboration within large‑scale enterprise organizations.
• A challenging, innovating environment.
• Opportunities for learning where needed.