Golang / Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead
Posted 3 days ago by Vallum Associates
£525 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
West Midlands (County)
Summary: The Golang / Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead role is a contract position focused on leading the development and management of a GKE Kubernetes Platform. The candidate will leverage their expertise in GoLang and Kubernetes to support engineering teams, ensure compliance with security standards, and drive innovation within an agile environment. This position requires a blend of technical skills and strategic thinking to enhance platform performance and facilitate application deployments. The role also involves mentoring team members and providing operational support as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and manage the Client GKE Kubernetes Platform to facilitate application deployments.
- Engineer solutions using coding, automation, and Infrastructure as Code methods.
- Ensure compliance with security controls and operational risk standards.
- Support continuous integration, delivery, and testing activities.
- Update support and operational documentation as required.
- 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 such as Terraform and Python.
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and testing tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt).
- Programming experience in Python or Go.
- Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
- Experience working within an Agile environment.
Salary (Rate): £525/day
City: Birmingham
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
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 (e.g. 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 (E.g. 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, e.g. Financial Services