Golang/Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead
Posted 4 days ago by Vallum
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Birmingham, UK
Summary: The Golang/Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead is responsible for overseeing the development and management of a GKE Kubernetes Platform, ensuring it is resilient, scalable, and developer-friendly. This role requires deep technical expertise in GoLang and Kubernetes, along with the ability to mentor team members and engage in strategic decision-making. The position involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and a focus on automation and compliance with security standards. The candidate will also provide out-of-hours support as part of a 24/7 coverage team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and manage the Client GKE Kubernetes Platform for application teams.
- Mentor and guide support engineers, representing the platform through talks and discussions.
- Engineer solutions using coding, automation, and Infrastructure as Code methods.
- Manage a fleet of GKE clusters and ensure compliance with security controls.
- Implement continuous integration, delivery, and testing activities.
- Support non-functional testing and update operational documentation.
- Fault find and support Applications teams.
- Provide out-of-business-hours support on a rotational basis.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience.
- Automation scripting skills using languages like Terraform and Python.
- Experience with CI/CD and continuous testing tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize).
- Experience in an Agile environment.
- Programming experience in Python or Go.
- Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
- Strong leadership in technical challenges and stakeholder management.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
The Role: Golang/Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead
Location: Sheffield, Leeds or Birmingham, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite
Job Description:
- The candidate should have good technical knowledge of GoLang (our environment is 80% written in GoLang) and a deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem.
- We are looking for a strong technical individual who can support the team on Kubernetes and GoLang, particularly during PR reviews and technical decision-making.
- This role goes beyond coding - it requires someone who can combine deep technical expertise with operational insight and strategic thinking.
- The Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building a highly resilient, scalable, performant and developer friendly GKE Kubernetes Platform in an automated and efficient manner. The Platform Engineer will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The Lead will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP and the Cloud Native community.
What you'll do
Build and manage the Client GKE Kubernetes Platform to easily let application teams deploy to Kubernetes. Mentor and guide support engineers, represent the platform technically through talks, blog posts and discussions
Engineer solutions on Client GKE Kubernetes Platform using Coding, Automation and Infrastructure as Code methods (eg Python, Tekton, Flux, Helm, Terraform, ). Manage a fleet of GKE clusters from a centrally provided solution
Ensure compliance with centrally defined security controls and with operational risk standards (eg Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency and Containers). Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards. Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on HSBC GCP core platform.
Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities. Engineering activities to implement patches for VMs and containers provided centrally
Support non-functional testing
Update support and operational documentation as required
Fault find and support Applications teams
On a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage
What you need to have to succeed in this role
Demonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience - building, configuring and extending Kubernetes platforms
Automation Scripting (using Scripting languages such as Terraform, Python etc.)
Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools
Experience of working with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt)
Experience working within an Agile environment
Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python or Go
the candidate should have good technical knowledge of GoLang (our environment is 80% written in GoLang) and a deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools
Help lead the team through technical challenges
Help the platform owner with work estimation and stakeholder management
Be the technical front of the Managed Kubernetes Platform, supporting our customer queries
Be involved in strategic developments for the platform
Help in our journey to make the platform multi cloud
Nice to have
GCP Certifications - ideally professional
CKAS/CKA Certifications
Kubernetes native Continuous Delivery (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
Implementing workload observability using logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)
Experience operating in highly regulated industry, eg Financial Services