Internal Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 15900 - 24300 PLN gross

What will you do

Join a global Platform Engineering team responsible for delivering and maintaining an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide. You will lead a local team in Poland drive platform automation and lifecycle management improve reliability and performance and support the evolution from traditional DevOps practices to a mature Platform Engineering model within a large international banking environment.

Your tasks

• Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management for the Internal Kubernetes Platform
• Build automation APIs and platform operations solutions to manage infrastructure and service lifecycle
• Improve reliability quality and efficiency of platform and service upgrades
• Monitor measure and optimize system performance availability and capacity
• Create dashboards and visualizations to increase platform transparency
• Develop self-healing solutions and automate operational processes
• Support software development teams with platform engineering architecture and operational guidance
• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows when required
• Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team
• Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities
• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows including approximately two weekends per month

Your skills

• Hands-on experience with Linux containers and Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem components such as Istio Cilium and CSI solutions
• Experience in platform engineering infrastructure automation and lifecycle management
• Proficiency in Bash and programming with Python or Golang
• Experience with Jenkins Ansible and infrastructure orchestration tools
• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk and Datadog
• Experience working with GitHub and software development lifecycle processes
• Knowledge of infrastructure operations and enterprise platform management
• ITIL awareness
• Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset
• Fluent English communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience working in a large-scale enterprise banking environment
• Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Knowledge of Private Cloud platforms

We offer

• Hybrid work our clients office (Kraków) 6 days a month
• Availability to participate in planned maintenance activities outside standard business hours including approximately two weekends per month
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical sport lunch subsidy life insurance etc.)
• Online training and certifications
• Access to e-learning platform
• Social events