Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team LeadRole - Platform Engineering Team Lead

• Location – Kraków, Poland - HybridRole - 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