Internal Kubernetes Platform Team Lead

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 135 - 170 PLN/H

What will you do?

Join a global Platform Engineering team responsible for delivering and maintaining an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide. You will lead a local team in Poland, drive platform automation and lifecycle management, improve reliability and performance, and support the evolution from traditional DevOps practices to a mature Platform Engineering model within a large international banking environment.

Your tasks

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


• Build automation, APIs and platform operations solutions to manage infrastructure and service lifecycle


• Improve reliability, quality and efficiency of platform and service upgrades


• Monitor, measure and optimize system performance, availability and capacity


• Create dashboards and visualizations to increase platform transparency


• Develop self-healing solutions and automate operational processes


• Support software development teams with platform engineering, architecture and operational guidance


• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows when required


• Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team


• Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities


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  Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows, including approximately two weekends per month
  
  

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Linux, containers and Kubernetes in production environments


• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem components such as Istio, Cilium and CSI solutions


• Experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation and lifecycle management


• Proficiency in Bash and programming with Python or Golang


• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible and infrastructure orchestration tools


• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk and Datadog


• Experience working with GitHub and software development lifecycle processes


• Knowledge of infrastructure operations and enterprise platform management


• ITIL awareness


• Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset


• Fluent English communication skills


• Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month


• Availability to participate in planned maintenance activities outside standard business hours, including approximately two weekends per month

Nice to have

• Experience working in a large-scale enterprise banking environment


• Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms


• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams


• Knowledge of Private Cloud platforms