Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Posted 02 December 2022
Salary £95000 per annum
LocationLondon
Job type Permanent
Discipline Software Engineering & TechDevOps & Cloud
ReferenceBH-3348
Contact NameDavid Creasey

Job description

James Chase is representing a fantastic well established Fintech client, who is looking to add to their Platform team in London. Great salary and benefits package on offer, with hybrid working structure.
Seasoned Senior Kubernetes Engineer to design, implement and maintain technologies, systems and tools to advance out next generation Application Development Platform based on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities
  • Contribute in design, understanding the architectural tradeoffs including Scalability, Resiliency, High Availability, Storage and Security Perform capacity planning and solution review related to the Kubernetes environment.
  • Adopt and promote modern automated “Self Service” paradigms
  • Perform proof-of-concept work for new tools and components
  • Turn proof-of-concept work into Production grade systems
  • Provide end-user support to Dev teams and implement change requests
  • Prioritize across various tasks, manage changes in daily workload
  • Concisely document instructions, user guides and policies in Confluence or in source control
  • Guide fellow engineers on stack standards and efficient utilization
Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience
  • Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Development platform tool chain based on Containers, Kubernetes, Helm and their ecosystems
  • Ability to use programming languages (e.g. Python, Powershell) to create production-grade APIs and integrations
  • Working knowledge of Linux environment
  • Willingness to learn and adopt to new technologies
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills. Forward thinking, self-starter, able to work independently
Required Qualification and Skills
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills. Forward thinking, self-starter, able to work independently
  • Kubernetes and Helm Knowledge
  • Ansible / Terraform / Infrastructure as a Code (one of)
  • Willingness to learn and adopt to new technologies
  • University / College bachelor level (or equivalent) degree
Beneficial Skills
  • Configuration Management / Deployment tools such as Ansible, Octopus
  • Experience with Cloud Providers (preferably Azure)
  • GitOps, CI / CD mindset
  • Networking knowledge