Cloud Architect

Your Job

This role is part of Guardian's GRD Infrastructure Operations team, focused on AWS cloud services and cloud-native technologies. Infrastructure Operations governs Guardian's AWS accounts and services, and supports the business as it adopts new technologies. The role also owns our cloud-native platform: Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and at the edge (RKE2). More and more teams use it to build modern applications and to modernize existing ones. The role leans toward architecture: designing how the platform works, helping teams onboard, and building cloud-native skills across the company.

What You Will Do

Cloud Native Platform

• Build, upgrade and operate Kubernetes clusters in AWS (EKS) and at edge sites (RKE2), managed through Rancher.
• Deliver platform services through GitOps with Argo CD: autoscaling (Karpenter), ingress and load balancing,
• storage, secrets management, workload identity, observability and security scanning.
• Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes), including a shared
• Terraform platform other teams use to deploy resources.
• Maintain our GitLab environment: CI/CD runners, pipeline templates, access and security settings.
• Set up guardrails so many teams can share the platform safely: namespaces, Argo CD projects, RBAC and network
• policy.
• Onboard teams with templates, documentation and hands-on support, and help optimize existing workloads.
• Keep the platform reliable: Datadog monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and incident
• response.

Cloud Engineering

• Support AWS services and the business applications built on them.
• Review new requirements with the Solution and Architecture team and help set strategy.
• Define and enforce cloud best practices for availability, performance, security, IAM and cost.
• Drive cloud fluency across other teams.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience with AWS, including EKS, IAM, VPC networking.
• Proven experience configuring and running production workloads on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Argo CD (or another GitOps tool), Helm and Rancher.
• Experience with Terraform (or OpenTofu), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred), and AWS ACK
• Comfortable in Linux and scripting in Python, Bash or Go.
• Understanding of workload identity (EKS Pod Identity, Azure Workload Identity) and secrets management.
• Strong communicator who can explain technical ideas to anyone from engineers to leadership, and who writes
• clear documentation and training material.
• Track record of sharing knowledge and growing others' cloud-native skills.
• High curiosity for new technologies.

What Will Put You Ahead

Karpenter, Gateway API, Cluster API or progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts)

Azure experience

Running AI/LLM workloads (e.g., Amazon Bedrock)

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Industries makes products that improve the quality of life. From glass that dramatically reduces energy usage and increases comfort in buildings, to automotive parts that enhance connectivity, we have a relentless focus on making better products and developing better solutions for our customers.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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