Job Description

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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