Find your next role

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 improvementLead the technical direction for Kubernetes platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and securityDefine and enforce platform standards, governance, and best practicesAct 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 clustersDrive configuration management, platform automation, and self-service capabilitiesWork with the DevOps team to integrate CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes platforms to support application delivery teams to manage their applicationsContinuously improving operational efficiency through tooling and automation Team Leadership & Development Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability EngineersProvide technical guidance, workload prioritization, and performance feedbackFoster a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvementSupport incident management, root cause analysis, and post incident learning Collaboration & Delivery Partner with application, platform, security, and infrastructure teams to support workloads running on KubernetesAssist with translating application requirements into platform designs and deployment strategiesContribute to platform roadmaps and ensure alignment with broader technology strategySupport 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 platforms5+ 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 securityStrong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automation through pipelines and GitOpsFamiliar with Agile methodologiesExperience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systemsExperience building and operating automation and GitOps pipelinesDemonstrated ability to lead and develop technical teamsExperience working in hybrid and/or cloud environmentsStrong 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, SELinuxTechnical knowledge of DevOps techniquesStrong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automationHands on experience with Unix commands and scriptingFamiliar with Agile methodologies, and WaterfallExperience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systemsExperience building and maintaining container-based imagesKubernetes Platforms (OpenShift, AKS)Infrastructure (Server, Storage, Network)Linux Operating System AdministrationVirtualization, Scripting, Database, Architecture Design, Resource Management, Agile methodologies, and WaterfallExcellent communication and interpersonal skills