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Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer
We are hiring a Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer for a platform and cloud engineering consultancy that builds and runs modern cloud platforms for clients across the public and private sectors. The company gives engineering teams a way to ship and run software safely at scale, backed by automation, strong governance, and tooling that makes developers self-sufficient.
Salary: €5,500-7,200 per month
100% Remote
Full-time position
B2B Requirements
Strong, practical command with 7+ years of experience of how Kubernetes works internally and how to administer it, not just operate it as a user
Proven track record building and running production clusters on AWS, owning self-managed setups end to end rather than leaning only on EKS
Experience leading and line-managing platform or infrastructure engineering teams, owning their growth and delivery
A history of setting technical strategy, architectural standards, and technology choices across multiple projects or customers
A clear mental model of how the control plane behaves and fails, across kube-apiserver, etcd, kube-scheduler, and kube-controller-manager, plus the node-side kubelet, kube-proxy, and the containerd runtime
Real operational experience with etcd: managing quorum and membership, running compaction and defragmentation, and handling backup and restore
Comfortable across AWS and the way Kubernetes sits on it: IAM, IRSA or Pod Identity, VPC design, load balancers, and autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter
Strong CI/CD background and fluency with GitOps
Hands-on building operators and controllers with CRDs and controller-runtime, plus the admission webhook tooling
Confident running day-2 work: upgrades that respect version skew, patching, certificate rotation, capacity planning, and incident handling
Strong stakeholder skills, comfortable managing senior and enterprise client relationships Nice to have
Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKS, or CKAD)
AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, Advanced Networking Specialty)
Go proficiency for controller and tooling work
Networking depth: CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium, AWS VPC CNI), Ingress and Gateway API, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), network policy
Security tooling: RBAC, Pod Security Standards, policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno), supply-chain security (Sigstore/cosign), CIS Benchmark hardening
Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging
IaC and config management: Terraform, Helm, Kustomize Responsibilities
Lead and line-manage a team of platform engineers, owning their development, performance, and day-to-day delivery
Set the technical roadmap and architectural standards for Kubernetes platforms reused across customer engagements
Stand up and run production Kubernetes on AWS, taking full ownership of self-managed clusters down to the control plane, etcd, and node lifecycle, rather than relying only on managed services
Act as the senior escalation point for major incidents and high-risk changes
Run the full operational lifecycle: version upgrades, security patches, rotating certificates and credentials, planning capacity, and responding to incidents
Engineer resilience across clusters spanning several AWS regions, with etcd backups and recovery routines that are tested regularly
Write custom operators and controllers that capture how the platform should behave and let development teams serve themselves
Connect Kubernetes to the surrounding AWS services: VPC networking and load balancers, IAM through IRSA or Pod Identity, storage, and secrets handling
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Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer
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