Golang / Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead

The Role: Golang / Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead

Location: Sheffield, Leeds or Birmingham, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite

Job Description:

• The candidate should have good technical knowledge of GoLang (our environment is 80% written in GoLang) and a deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• We are looking for a strong technical individual who can support the team on Kubernetes and GoLang, particularly during PR reviews and technical decision-making.
• This role goes beyond coding – it requires someone who can combine deep technical expertise with operational insight and strategic thinking.
• The Kubernetes Platform Tech Lead will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building a highly resilient, scalable, performant and developer friendly GKE Kubernetes Platform in an automated and efficient manner.  The Platform Engineer will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams.  The Lead will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP and the Cloud Native community.

What you’ll do

•             Build and manage the Client GKE Kubernetes Platform to easily let application teams deploy to Kubernetes. Mentor and guide support engineers, represent the platform technically through talks, blog posts and discussions

•             Engineer solutions on Client GKE Kubernetes Platform using Coding, Automation and Infrastructure as Code methods (e.g. Python, Tekton, Flux, Helm, Terraform, …). Manage a fleet of GKE clusters from a centrally provided solution

•             Ensure compliance with centrally defined security controls and with operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency and Containers).  Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards. Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on HSBC GCP core platform.

•             Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities. Engineering activities to implement patches for VMs and containers provided centrally

•             Support non-functional testing

•             Update support and operational documentation as required

•             Fault find and support Applications teams

•             On a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage

What you need to have to succeed in this role

•             Demonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience – building, configuring and extending Kubernetes platforms

•             Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Python etc.)

•             Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools

•             Experience of working with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt)

•             Experience working within an Agile environment

•             Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python or Go

•             the candidate should have good technical knowledge of GoLang (our environment is 80% written in GoLang) and a deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem.

•             Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

•             Help lead the team through technical challenges

•             Help the platform owner with work estimation and stakeholder management

•             Be the technical front of the Managed Kubernetes Platform, supporting our customer queries

•             Be involved in strategic developments for the platform

•             Help in our journey to make the platform multi cloud

Nice to have

•             GCP Certifications - ideally professional

•             CKAS / CKA Certifications

•             Kubernetes native Continuous Delivery (FluxCD, ArgoCD)

•             Implementing workload observability using logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)

•             Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services