Infoplus Technologies UK Limited
Platform Specialist
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Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead with GoLang Experience
đź“Ť Location: Sheffield, Leeds, or Birmingham, UK
🏢 Work Model: Hybrid
đź’Ľ Employment Type: Contract / Long-Term Engagement
👨💻 Experience Required: 10+ Years
We are looking for an experienced Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead with strong GoLang expertise to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and managing a highly resilient, scalable, and developer-friendly Kubernetes platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
This is an excellent opportunity for a technical leader who enjoys solving complex platform engineering challenges, mentoring engineers, influencing technical decisions, and driving cloud-native innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, manage, and enhance a scalable and highly available GKE Kubernetes Platform enabling application teams to deploy efficiently and securely.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, pull request reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Design and implement platform solutions using Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies.
- Manage and operate multiple Kubernetes clusters from a centrally governed platform.
- Ensure compliance with security, operational risk, monitoring, logging, availability, and resiliency standards.
- Build and support Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Testing pipelines.
- Collaborate with application teams, DevOps teams, and cross-functional IT teams to resolve technical challenges and improve platform capabilities.
- Support platform observability, troubleshooting, and incident management activities.
- Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24x7 operational support coverage.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives including multi-cloud platform capabilities and future platform enhancements.
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Mandatory Skills:
- Strong technical expertise in GoLang
- Deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Strong experience with Kubernetes architecture, administration, and platform engineering
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
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Required Technical Skills:
- Kubernetes / GKE
- GoLang
- Terraform
- Python
- Helm
- FluxCD
- Tekton
- Kustomize
- CI/CD Pipelines
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Containerization and Cloud Native technologies
- Monitoring and Logging solutions
- Agile methodologies
Nice to Have:
- GCP Professional Certifications
- CKA, CKAD, or CKS Certifications
- Experience with ArgoCD or FluxCD
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Monitoring
- Experience working within highly regulated environments such as Financial Services
Ideal Candidate:
We are looking for a technically strong individual who can go beyond coding and combine deep engineering expertise with operational insight, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and technical leadership.
If you are passionate about Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering and enjoy leading teams through technical challenges, we would love to hear from you.
Interested candidates can apply directly or share their updated CV for further discussion.
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