Principal Cloud Kubernetes Architect Disaster Recovery

About the role

BMA Group Global is seeking a Principal Cloud, Kubernetes & Disaster Recovery Architect to define enterprise strategy, governance, and architecture across hybrid cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR). This is an individual contributor role for an experienced infrastructure or platform engineering professional who can establish technical standards, design resilient environments, and advise leadership on cloud strategy, operational risk, scalability, and disaster readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise Kubernetes and container platform strategy across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Develop reference architectures and standardized deployment patterns for microservices, data platforms, and analytics workloads.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code governance and reusable automation using Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design hybrid cloud infrastructure strategies that support scalability, performance, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Define and lead enterprise-wide BCDR strategy across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Architect multi-region and multi-cloud recovery solutions, including active-active, active-passive, pilot-light, and warm-standby models.
• Establish recovery objectives, governance frameworks, documentation standards, ownership models, and testing programs.
• Lead disaster recovery simulations, failover testing, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Define resilience strategies for Kubernetes clusters, workloads, data platforms, backups, and critical infrastructure.
• Establish enterprise observability standards across metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational reporting.
• Define service reliability standards, including SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, capacity planning, and self-healing capabilities.
• Implement security standards such as RBAC.

Datos clave

• The role defines enterprise strategy, governance, and architecture across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and BCDR.
• Responsibilities include Kubernetes strategy, recovery architecture, disaster recovery testing, observability, and reliability standards.
• The role involves advising leadership on cloud strategy, operational risk, scalability, and disaster readiness.