Location: Bangalore

Company: Alstom

Job Summary Could you be the full-time Architecture Definition Governance Specialist in Bangalore we're looking for

Take on a new challenge and apply your technical expertise in a cutting-edge field. Youll work alongside innovative, collaborative, and solutions-driven teammates.

You'll play a key role in shaping the end-to-end software and infrastructure architecture for products based on Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) platforms. Day-to-day, youll work closely with teams across the business (e.g., virtualization, networking, and security experts), define architecture requirements, and ensure alignment with industry best practices and organizational goals.

You'll specifically take care of designing scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures, but also guide the evolution of deployment tools and processes.

Responsibilities

- Defining and maintaining the end-to-end software and infrastructure architecture for HCI-based products
- Ensuring architectural consistency across virtualization, deployment, networking, and security domains
- Architecting solutions supporting multiple hypervisors, including XCP-NG and KVM-based platforms
- Guiding adaptations of deployment and orchestration tools to support various platforms
- Promoting the reuse of existing tools, frameworks, and commercial or open-source solutions
- Identifying and formalizing administration use cases for virtualized environments
- Ensuring compliance with secure boot, platform security principles, and lifecycle security
- Collaborating with cybersecurity stakeholders to validate system hardening and trust chains
- Defining network architecture principles,



including VLAN design and high-bandwidth requirements
- Assessing technology obsolescence risks and ensuring sustainability

All about you We value passion and attitude over experience. Thats why we dont expect you to have every single skill. Instead, weve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

- Strong knowledge of Linux systems and low-level OS concepts
- Solid understanding of virtualization fundamentals, including VM lifecycle, isolation, networking, and storage
- Hands-on experience with hypervisor technologies such as Xen, KVM, or Harvester
- Understanding of Kubernetes and container concepts (clusters, workloads, lifecycle)
- Ability to design hybrid VM/container architectures
- Strong understanding of networking principles, including VLANs, segmentation, and latency considerations
- Awareness of security and isolation mechanisms in virtualized platforms, including secure boot concepts
- Experience with automation, deployment, or platform tooling (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, orchestration concepts)
- Ability to work in multi-hypervisor environments and understand nested virtualization concepts

Things youll enjoy Join us on a life-long transformative journey the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. Youll also:





- Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
- Work with new security standards for rail signalling
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
- Contribute to cutting-edge projects
- utilise our agile and flexible working environment
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
- Progress towards leadership roles or technical specialization
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

You dont need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, youll be proud. If youre up for the challenge, wed love to hear from you!

Important to note As a global business, were an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. Were committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

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📌 Lead Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Alstom Transportation
📍 Bengaluru