Kubernetes Platform Engineer
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£54,700
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Description
Role - Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Location - Manchester, UK (3 Days hybrid)
Type - Permanent
Job Description:
- Design and development: Working closely with an agile development team of Kubernetes engineers to co-design and develop a Kubernetes managed service for telco functions within a high security private cloud environment.
- Automation: Automating cluster deployment, scaling, and management using infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration tools. Collaborating with development teams on infrastructure deployment best practices, encompassing CI/CD pipelines and related frameworks such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
- Operations: Utilising a DevOps approach, providing documentation and incident escalation support to operations teams to facilitate brilliant in life service and incident management of the Kubernetes managed service.
- Integration: Building a deep understanding of varied software spanning security, logging, monitoring, cloud infrastructure, networks, and how best to integrate these into a cohesive platform solution.
- Innovation and Evaluation: Contributing to the exploration of cutting-edge technologies through the deployment of new technology proof-of-concept projects related to Kubernetes, participation in their assessment, and development into an in-life service.
Mandatory
- Strong Linux OS experience
- Worked in on‑prem or private cloud environments
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience (using K8s, not necessarily running the control plane)
- Experience with at least one automation/IaC tool (Terraform or Ansible ideal)
- Strong networking fundamentals
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenStack
- Bare-metal provisioning
- Experience with Rancher/RKE2, or other on-prem K8s flavours
- CI/CD tooling
- Scripting in Python/Golang
- GitOps concepts
Telco networking technologies (SR‑IOV, DPDK)