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UPUpbound

Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA(m/w/x)

Zürich
Full-timeOn-siteExperienced
AI/ML

Designing customer architectures for infrastructure platforms in the Agentic AI Era, leveraging Kubernetes and Crossplane. Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building essential, German language proficiency a plus. Focus on Intelligent Control Planes technology.

Requirements

  • Code writing/maintenance for Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, add-ons)
  • Production Kubernetes deployment/workload management
  • Platform engineering/SRE background with IDP building
  • German language proficiency (plus)
  • Deep understanding of scaled, reliable services/infrastructure in multiple cloud providers
  • Excellent communication, engagement, leadership, and presentation skills
  • Customer/open source community technical issue resolution
  • Deployment/integration of Cloud Native/CNCF projects in production
  • Incorporation of modern operational/delivery tools (HashiCorp, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)
  • Programming skills in a modern language (Go ideal)
  • Ability to work closely with diverse teams
  • Successful management of multiple projects/priorities in dynamic environment
  • Excitement/comfort in defining/scaling engineering/customer solutions
  • Crossplane experience (highly preferred)
  • Active involvement/contribution to upstream Kubernetes community
  • History of tech conference speaking, technical writing, and/or open source contribution
  • Experience in startup/distributed/remote teams and understanding of startup challenges
  • Current CKA or CKAD certification

Tasks

  • Partner with pre-sales for customer implementation
  • Understand customer environments and requirements
  • Identify customer platform needs
  • Design delightful architectures and solutions
  • Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane
  • Conduct technical discovery for engagements
  • Scope customer engagements
  • Contribute to authoring Statements of Work
  • Troubleshoot and resolve Crossplane deployment issues
  • Improve customer deployments through coding
  • Fix bugs in Upbound and Crossplane products
  • Build scoped features for Upbound and Crossplane
  • Build cloud-native reference platforms
  • Maintain cloud-native reference platforms
  • Collaborate cross-departmentally for solutions
  • Resolve complex scenarios and integration issues
  • Act as Upbound's technical voice to customers
  • Represent customer needs internally
  • Influence the product roadmap
  • Advise customers on ongoing technical solutions

Work Experience

approx. 1 - 4 years

Education

Vocational certificationORBachelor's degreeORMaster's degree

Languages

GermanBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

Kubernetes APIKubernetesIDPCNCF projectsHashiCorpTerraformCI/CDIaCGitOpsGoCrossplane
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