Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead

The Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building a highly resilient, scalable, performant and developer friendly GKE Kubernetes Platform in an automated and efficient manner. The Platform Engineer will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The Lead will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP and the Cloud Native community.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Demonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience – building, configuring and extending Kubernetes platforms
• Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Python etc.)
• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools
• Experience of working with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt)
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python or Go
• the candidate should have good technical knowledge of GoLang (our environment is 80% written in GoLang) and a deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools
• Help lead the team through technical challenges
• Help the platform owner with work estimation and stakeholder management
• Be the technical front of the Managed Kubernetes Platform, supporting our customer queries
• Be involved in strategic developments for the platform
• Help in our journey to make the platform multi cloud

Nice to have

• GCP Certifications - ideally professional
• CKAS / CKA Certifications
• Kubernetes native Continuous Delivery (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
• Implementing workload observability using logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)
• Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services