VP – Infrastructure Architect; Kubernetes; hedge fund

A leading global hedge fund is seeking an accomplished VP – Infrastructure Architect (Kubernetes) to lead the architecture, design and evolution of its large-scale container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity within a highly sophisticated technology environment, supporting critical investment platforms, quantitative research, data engineering and enterprise applications.

The successful candidate will be responsible for defining the architectural direction of the firm's Kubernetes ecosystem, ensuring the infrastructure is highly scalable, resilient, secure and capable of supporting demanding workloads across a complex global technology landscape.

Working closely with senior technology leadership, infrastructure engineering, application development and platform teams, this individual will play a pivotal role in shaping the firm's next-generation infrastructure strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes Architecture & Strategy

• Own the architecture and technical direction of the firm's enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Design, build and scale large-scale Kubernetes environments supporting mission-critical applications and computational workloads.
• Define architectural standards, design patterns and best practices for Kubernetes adoption across the organisation.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant and geographically distributed Kubernetes environments.
• Lead the evolution of Kubernetes infrastructure across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud environments.
• Evaluate emerging container orchestration technologies and develop long-term infrastructure roadmaps.
• Ensure Kubernetes platforms can support significant growth in application demand, computational workloads and infrastructure complexity.
• Drive the development of enterprise-grade container platforms that enable engineering teams to deploy, operate and scale applications efficiently.
• Architect reusable infrastructure services and self-service platform capabilities.
• Establish standardised approaches to container deployment, configuration management and lifecycle operations.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to improve developer experience, infrastructure reliability and deployment efficiency.
• Lead infrastructure modernisation initiatives involving containerisation, microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Define approaches for multi-cluster management, workload isolation and resource optimisation.

Scalability, Reliability & Performance

• Design Kubernetes infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale, high-throughput and business-critical workloads.
• Architect solutions for cluster scalability, workload scheduling, resource allocation and capacity management.
• Establish high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity architecture.
• Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks affecting application performance and infrastructure efficiency.
• Define standards for Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery and storage integration.
• Ensure infrastructure can meet demanding availability, performance and operational requirements.

Infrastructure Automation & Dev Ops

• Define infrastructure automation strategies using Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops principles.
• Drive automated Kubernetes provisioning, deployment, configuration and lifecycle management.
• Establish architectural standards for technologies including Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD and related platforms.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and SRE teams to implement effective CI/CD and infrastructure delivery practices.
• Promote automated testing, observability and operational resilience across Kubernetes environments.
• Improve platform efficiency through automation and engineering best practices.

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