Kubernetes Architect

Role

Kubernetes Architect

Manchester, UK

Min 12+ years

Permanent

3 days/week onsite

Please share only UK Nationals/ILR.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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

• Experience with Open Stack
• Bare‑metal provisioning
• Experience with Rancher/RKE2, or other on‑prem K8s flavours
• CI/CD tooling
• Scripting in Python/Golang
• Git Ops concepts
• Telco networking technologies (SR‑IOV, DPDK)