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The Opportunity:

The Team Lead – Kubernetes Operations is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for the ownership, reliability, and evolution of the organization’s Kubernetes platforms, while leading and developing a team of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). This role blends deep technical expertise with people leadership, platform strategy, and operational excellence.

You will be accountable for the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of Kubernetes‑based clusters across on‑prem and cloud environments, ensuring they are secure, stable, scalable, automated, and aligned with organizational standards.
This is a hybrid role with flexible onsite expectations, typically 1 to 2 days per week. New employees are expected to be onsite 2 to 3 times a week during their first three months to support onboarding and collaboration. #LI-Hybrid

About The Role:

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership

• Own the end to end lifecycle of Kubernetes platforms, including design, build, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement
• Lead the technical direction for Kubernetes platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and security
• Define and enforce platform standards, governance, and best practices
• Act as a subject matter expert for Kubernetes and the container ecosystem

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Lead the implementation and evolution of the automation and GitOps pipelines to manage the clusters
• Drive configuration management, platform automation, and self-service capabilities
• Work with the DevOps team to integrate CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes platforms to support application delivery teams to manage their applications
• Continuously improving operational efficiency through tooling and automation

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers
• Provide technical guidance, workload prioritization, and performance feedback
• Foster a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and post incident learning

Collaboration & Delivery

• Partner with application, platform, security, and infrastructure teams to support workloads running on Kubernetes
• Assist with translating application requirements into platform designs and deployment strategies
• Contribute to platform roadmaps and ensure alignment with broader technology strategy
• Support migration and modernization initiatives, including containerization of existing workloads

What You Need to Succeed:

Education:

• 4-year degree (preferably in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or similar).

Experience:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining Kubernetes based platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of configuration management and automation tools.
• Proven hands-on experience installing, managing and designing Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift is preferred)
• Strong understanding of container orchestration, networking, storage, and security
• Strong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automation through pipelines and GitOps
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Experience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systems
• Experience building and operating automation and GitOps pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop technical teams
• Experience working in hybrid and/or cloud environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders

Skills:

• Hands on experience working with OpenShift – Installation, Secret Management, Image Scanning, Certificates, SSL/TLS, persistent storage solutions, SELinux
• Technical knowledge of DevOps techniques
• Strong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automation
• Hands on experience with Unix commands and scripting
• Familiar with Agile methodologies, and Waterfall
• Experience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systems
• Experience building and maintaining container-based images
• Kubernetes Platforms (OpenShift, AKS)
• Infrastructure (Server, Storage, Network)
• Linux Operating System Administration
• Virtualization, Scripting, Database, Architecture Design, Resource Management, Agile methodologies, and Waterfall
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills