Platform Operations Lead - Kubernetes & Linux

About the role

An experienced Platform Operations Lead is sought to own a production environment covering Kubernetes, Linux/RHEL, enterprise middleware and infrastructure services. This is a hands-on leadership role guiding a team of 4-6 infrastructure engineers while staying directly involved in troubleshooting, patching, hardening and lifecycle management.

Key responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of Kubernetes and container platforms
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of 4-6 infrastructure engineers
• Manage production incidents, escalations and root-cause analysis
• Plan and execute infrastructure changes, patching, upgrades and lifecycle activities
• Maintain RHEL/Linux environments, including OS patching and security hardening
• Install, configure and troubleshoot enterprise platform components and middleware
• Work with application, infrastructure, network, security and customer teams on complex issues
• Maintain monitoring, logging and observability; support capacity planning, performance optimisation and service reliability
• Take part in disaster recovery and business continuity activities
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks and architecture documentation
• Support infrastructure change requests and communicate technical risks, impact and implementation plans to stakeholders

Required profile

• 7+ years of relevant infrastructure, systems or platform operations experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting Kubernetes/container platforms in production
• Solid Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL
• Experience managing production incidents, changes and root cause analysis
• Experience providing technical direction, mentoring or coordination within infrastructure/platform teams
• Experience in environments with formal security, compliance or change-control requirements

Required skills

• OS patching, hardening and platform lifecycle management
• Working knowledge of Nutanix, VMware, Azure Stack or similar enterprise virtualisation/private-cloud platforms
• Troubleshooting across networking, firewalls and load balancers