Internal Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

GFT Poland is a global IT engineering and consulting company with 1200 skilled experts. The team is responsible for delivering and maintaining an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers in a large international banking environment.

• 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

• 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, including approximately two weekends per month
• Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team
• Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities