Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

• Focus: Hands-on Kubernetes platform engineering and local team leadership

Description

You will lead a small, local team and stay deeply technical while supporting the end-to-end lifecycle of a large, global Kubernetes platform used by internal teams. The work focuses on evolving platform engineering from classic DevOps toward automation, reliability, and reduced manual operations—covering automation, upgrades, observability/self-healing, and production troubleshooting. You will also provide technical support for developers and collaborate with global engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end engineering and lifecycle management of the Kubernetes platform

• Develop tools and automation for infrastructure and service management

• Automate recurring operational (BAU) processes

• Improve Platform Operations and the way the platform is managed

• Increase reliability and quality of environments

• Improve Kubernetes cluster and service upgrade processes

• Monitor and optimize performance and resource utilization; capacity planning

• Build dashboards and observability solutions; implement self-healing mechanisms

• Troubleshoot production environments and detect problems

• Provide technical support to developer teams; participate in system design and platform management consultations

• Support and coordinate a local 5-person team; collaborate with a global Team Lead and other locations

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Kubernetes administration, especially in production

• Very strong Kubernetes knowledge plus containerization and the K8s ecosystem

• Experience with Istio, Ingress, Cilium, and CSI/container storage

• Very strong Linux knowledge (filesystem and networking)

• Experience managing and maintaining production environments

• Ability to automate infrastructure using Python and/or Golang and Bash

• Experience with Ansible, Jenkins, and Git

• Observability tools knowledge (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)

• Knowledge of ITIL processes

• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure performance, reliability, and availability

• Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers

• Excellent communication and ability to work in a global environment

• English for business communication

Benefits

• Hands-on leadership role with ongoing collaboration in a global platform engineering setup