Platform Engineering Architect in Newark, NJ : Local Only
Deepika Dua
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Job Title: Platform Engineering Architect
Location: Newark, NJ
Duration: Long Term
Define enterprise Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), create cloud platform patterns and application templates, establish resilience and tiering frameworks, and provide the foundational patterns that solution architects use to design cloud-native, resilient applications. This role creates enterprise patterns, not solution-specific architectures.
Required Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
Experience:
- 10+ years in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, or platform engineering
- 5+ years defining NFRs and architecture standards at enterprise scale
- Proven experience designing resilient, highly available systems
- Experience establishing application tiering and RPO/RTO frameworks
- Track record creating cloud platform patterns and reference architectures
Certifications (Required/Preferred):
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional OR Azure Solutions Architect Expert OR Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (at least one required)
- TOGAF certification (preferred)
- Additional cloud certifications (preferred)
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Skill Category |
Required Skills |
Proficiency Level |
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NFR Definition |
Performance standards definition |
Expert |
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NFR Definition |
Scalability pattern creation |
Expert |
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NFR Definition |
Availability and resilience requirements |
Expert |
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NFR Definition |
Observability standards |
Advanced |
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Application Tiering |
Business criticality assessment |
Expert |
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Application Tiering |
RPO/RTO framework design |
Expert |
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Application Tiering |
SLA/SLO definition |
Advanced |
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Cloud Platform Patterns |
Cloud-native architecture patterns |
Expert |
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Cloud Platform Patterns |
Microservices patterns |
Expert |
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Cloud Platform Patterns |
Serverless patterns |
Advanced |
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Cloud Platform Patterns |
Container orchestration patterns |
Advanced |
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Resilience Patterns |
HA/DR pattern library |
Expert |
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Resilience Patterns |
Multi-region architecture |
Advanced |
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Resilience Patterns |
Failover and recovery patterns |
Advanced |
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Platform Technologies |
AWS/Azure/GCP platform services |
Advanced |
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Platform Technologies |
Kubernetes architecture |
Advanced |
- Multi-cloud architecture experience
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background
- Experience in industries with strict availability requirements (finance, healthcare, critical infrastructure)
What Makes This Role Unique
- NFR framework owner: You'll define the enterprise standards for performance, scalability, availability, and resilience
- Application tiering authority: Create and govern the RPO/RTO framework that classifies all enterprise applications
- Cloud platform strategist: Shape how the organization uses cloud services through patterns and templates
- Resilience architect: Design the HA/DR patterns that protect business-critical systems
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise NFRs & Standards (40%)
- Define enterprise Non-Functional Requirements framework covering performance, scalability, availability, resilience, observability, and cost optimization
- Create application tiering framework based on business criticality (Tier 0/1/2/3 with RPO/RTO requirements)
- Map NFRs to each tier and document required architecture patterns
- Establish SLA/SLO framework for enterprise applications
- Define capacity planning and sizing standards
Cloud Platform Patterns & Templates (35%)
- Create cloud-native application templates (microservices, serverless, container-based)
- Define compute platform patterns (when to use VMs, containers, serverless, managed services)
- Establish resilience and HA/DR patterns by tier (multi-region active-active, multi-AZ HA, backup/recovery)
- Document data persistence patterns (database selection, caching, state management)
- Create cloud platform reference architectures (3-tier, microservices, event-driven, serverless)
- Define observability patterns (application monitoring, distributed tracing, log aggregation)
- Establish cost optimization patterns (right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances)
Frameworks (15%)
- Build application architecture templates for common patterns (web apps, APIs, batch processing, streaming)
- Create disaster recovery testing framework
- Define performance testing framework and standards
- Establish cloud migration pattern library (lift-shift, re-platform, re-architect)
Roadmap & Governance (10%)
- Develop cloud platform and modernization roadmap
- Participate in application tier classification reviews
- Review solution architectures for NFR compliance and tier alignment
- Coordinate with Infrastructure team on platform capabilities
Regards,
Deepika Dua
VBeyond Corporation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepika-dua-018459166/
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