Cloud Platform Architect

7 days ago

Christchurch, New Zealand CodeMatch Full time

**Cloud Platform Architect - SaaS & IDP Focus**

I'm currently supporting a client in the networking tech space, seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to lead the design of a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform and internal developer tooling. This is a strategic, hands-on contract role ideal for someone who can balance architectural clarity with delivery momentum.

**About the Engagement**
You will be working with a high-trust, engineering-led team building a SaaS solution for managing and monitoring networking devices. The platform is microservices-based, Kubernetes-native, and designed for scale, security, and observability. Youll also lead the buildout of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to streamline provisioning, secrets management, service mesh, SSO integration, and centralised metrics.

**What You Will Be Driving**
- Architecture for scalable, secure, multi-tenant SaaS
- IDP features: rapid environment provisioning, automated cert/secrets rotation, service mesh, SSO (OIDC/SAML), centralised logging
- Cloud standards, patterns, and best practices
- Platform scalability, tooling selection, and DevOps workflows
- Multi-tenant security and compliance
- Mentoring engineers in Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native tooling

**Toolkit**
- Kubernetes: Production-grade ops (upgrades, scaling, DR)
- AWS: EKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch; multi-cloud familiarity welcome
- IaC: Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux
- Networking & Security: VPCs, ingress, RBAC, pod security, zero-trust
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry
- Secrets & Identity: Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, OAuth2, OIDC

**Bonus Experience**
- CNCF ecosystem: Crossplane, Kyverno, OPA, Backstage
- IDP design and developer experience
- Networking products or telemetry pipelines
- FinOps and SaaS compliance (ISO27001, SOC2)
- DR, HA, and scaling strategies

**Contract Details**
- Type: Contractor (full-time preferred, part-time negotiable)
- Duration: 2 - 6 months
- Location: On-site or remote-friendly

If you are a pragmatic architect with a hands-on mindset and a track record of delivering impact in complex cloud environments, we would love to hear from you. This is a great opportunity to shape platform foundations while collaborating with a thoughtful, delivery-focused team. Reach out via CodeMatch to express interest or request more detail.

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