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Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA(m/w/x)
Designing and implementing Upbound/Crossplane-based Intelligent Control Planes for customer production environments. Production Kubernetes deployment management and platform engineering background required, German language proficiency a plus. Pioneering infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era.
Requirements
- Experience writing/maintaining Kubernetes API interfacing code (operators, controllers, add-ons)
- Experience managing production Kubernetes deployments or workloads
- Background in platform engineering/SRE with IDP building
- German language proficiency (huge plus)
- Deep understanding of scaled, reliable services/infrastructure in major cloud providers
- Excellent communication, engagement, leadership, and presentation skills
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues with customers/community
- Experience deploying/integrating Cloud Native/CNCF projects in production
- Experience incorporating modern ops/delivery tools (HashiCorp, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)
- Programming skills in a modern language (Go ideal)
- Ability to work closely with diverse disciplines/backgrounds
- Experience managing multiple projects/priorities in fast-paced environment
- Excitement/comfort in defining/scaling engineering/customer solutions
- Crossplane experience (highly preferred)
- Active involvement/contribution to upstream Kubernetes community
- History of speaking at conferences, blogging, and/or open source contributions
- Experience in startup/distributed/remote teams and understanding challenges
- Current CKA or CKAD certification
Tasks
- Partner with the pre-sales team to transition customers smoothly
- Understand customer environments and requirements
- Identify customer platform needs
- Design architecture and solutions
- Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane technology in production environments
- Perform technical discovery
- Scope customer engagements
- Author Statements of Work
- Troubleshoot and solve customer technical challenges
- Support deployment of Crossplane and Upbound Cloud architectures
- Write code to improve customer deployments
- Fix bugs in Upbound products and Crossplane
- Build scoped features for Upbound and Crossplane
- Build and maintain cloud native reference platforms
- Collaborate cross-departmentally to resolve complex issues
- Act as the technical voice for customers
- Represent customer needs internally
- Influence the product roadmap
- Advise customers as a trusted technical expert
- Identify and present ongoing technical solutions
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Vocational certificationOR
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- German – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kubernetes
- IDP
- CNCF
- HashiCorp
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- IaC
- GitOps
- Go
- Crossplane
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Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA(m/w/x)
Designing and implementing Upbound/Crossplane-based Intelligent Control Planes for customer production environments. Production Kubernetes deployment management and platform engineering background required, German language proficiency a plus. Pioneering infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era.
Requirements
- Experience writing/maintaining Kubernetes API interfacing code (operators, controllers, add-ons)
- Experience managing production Kubernetes deployments or workloads
- Background in platform engineering/SRE with IDP building
- German language proficiency (huge plus)
- Deep understanding of scaled, reliable services/infrastructure in major cloud providers
- Excellent communication, engagement, leadership, and presentation skills
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues with customers/community
- Experience deploying/integrating Cloud Native/CNCF projects in production
- Experience incorporating modern ops/delivery tools (HashiCorp, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps)
- Programming skills in a modern language (Go ideal)
- Ability to work closely with diverse disciplines/backgrounds
- Experience managing multiple projects/priorities in fast-paced environment
- Excitement/comfort in defining/scaling engineering/customer solutions
- Crossplane experience (highly preferred)
- Active involvement/contribution to upstream Kubernetes community
- History of speaking at conferences, blogging, and/or open source contributions
- Experience in startup/distributed/remote teams and understanding challenges
- Current CKA or CKAD certification
Tasks
- Partner with the pre-sales team to transition customers smoothly
- Understand customer environments and requirements
- Identify customer platform needs
- Design architecture and solutions
- Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane technology in production environments
- Perform technical discovery
- Scope customer engagements
- Author Statements of Work
- Troubleshoot and solve customer technical challenges
- Support deployment of Crossplane and Upbound Cloud architectures
- Write code to improve customer deployments
- Fix bugs in Upbound products and Crossplane
- Build scoped features for Upbound and Crossplane
- Build and maintain cloud native reference platforms
- Collaborate cross-departmentally to resolve complex issues
- Act as the technical voice for customers
- Represent customer needs internally
- Influence the product roadmap
- Advise customers as a trusted technical expert
- Identify and present ongoing technical solutions
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Vocational certificationOR
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- German – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kubernetes
- IDP
- CNCF
- HashiCorp
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- IaC
- GitOps
- Go
- Crossplane
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About the Company
Upbound
Industry
IT
Description
Upbound pioneers infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, empowering teams with Intelligent Control Planes based on Kubernetes and Crossplane.
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