Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

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• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms in production environments
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Experience building infrastructure automation, APIs, and pipelines
• Programming experience in Python or Golang
• Strong scripting skills, e.g., Bash
• Experience with Kubernetes-native technologies such as Istio, Cilium, or CSI
• Experience with Jenkins and Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Splunk or Datadog
• Experience with infrastructure and software lifecycle management using GitHub
• Proactive approach to identifying reliability issues and performance bottlenecks
• Good understanding of ITIL
• Fluent in English and Polish

Nice to have:

• Experience leading or coordinating a small engineering team
• Experience with Kubernetes platform upgrades and lifecycle automation
• Knowledge of self-healing and automated remediation solutions
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise or global engineering environments
• Experience with capacity planning and platform performance optimization

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of an internal Kubernetes platform
• Build automation, APIs, and orchestration solutions for infrastructure and platform services
• Improve platform reliability and automate cluster and service upgrades
• Monitor and optimize system performance, resource utilization, and capacity
• Build dashboards and visualizations for platform health transparency
• Identify recurring issues and implement self-healing solutions where possible
• Provide platform engineering and operational support to development teams
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning
• Coordinate the work and monthly schedule of a local team of 5 engineers
• Collaborate with global engineering teams on platform initiatives
• Support infrastructure changes outside standard working hours when required