Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Role - Platform Engineering Team Lead

Location – Kraków, Poland - Hybrid

Role - Contract

Roles and Responsibilities

•           Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management on Internal Kubernetes Platform

•           Build tools and automation to manage platform infrastructure and services lifecycle. Develop platform operations to orchestrate all automation solutions, rather than maintaining isolated pipelines

•           Improve reliability, quality, and time to upgrade cluster and service versions

•           Measure and optimize system performance and resource utilization, and plan for future capacity

•           Build dashboards and visualizations to users for transparency of platform status

•           Detect system issue and develop self-healing solution where possible

•           Provide operational support and engineering for multiple software development teams.

• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

•           Implement infrastructure changes at weekends or out of normal operating hours.

•           Support members of the small team of 5 people responsible for the above tasks and manage their monthly schedule as well as collaborate with a Global Engineering Team Lead to properly manage the local team involvement in a global workload

Skills & Experience Required

·       Administrative knowledge with hands-on experience with container and Kubernetes infrastructure as well as management and operation experience on production environment

·       Engineering skillset to manage infrastructure by developing automation, API and pipeline

·       Core competencies: Linux OS, Container, Kubernetes and K8S native system like Istio, Cilium, CSI solution etc.

·       Ability to script in one or more shell languages, such as Bash and to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python or Golang

·       Ability to use orchestration tools like Jenkins and Ansible (core & AAP) and observability tools like Splunk & Datadog

·       Experience in infrastructure lifecycle management and in development following software lifecycle using Github

·       ITIL awareness

·       A proactive approach to spot problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

·       Proficiency in English. We are a diverse company. Ability to communicate on a business level with everyone is a must