Technical Lead - Kubernetes
Contract | Hybrid | 3 days onsite either in Sheffield, Leeds or Birmingham
We're looking for a hands‑on Kubernetes Technical Lead to guide a platform engineering team and own a large‑scale, multi‑cloud Kubernetes platform for a major banking client.
What You'll Do
Lead the platform team through technical challenges and best practices
Support platform ownership - estimation, planning, stakeholder engagement
Act as the technical front for the Managed Kubernetes Platform
Drive strategic improvements and multi‑cloud expansion
Support customer queries and platform adoption
What You Bring
Kubernetes expertise across GKE, AKS, EKS
Multi‑cloud experience - GCP, Azure, AWS
Terraform for IaC
Golang for tooling, proxies, extensions
CI/CD - Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
Security: Vault, Kong, Okta/OAuth
Bonus: Full‑stack capability (Java, Scala, NestJS, ReactJS)
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