Technical Lead- Kubernetes

Contract | Hybrid | 3 days onsite either in Sheffield, Leeds or Birmingham

We're looking for a hands‑on Kubernetes Technical Lead to guide a platform engineering team and own a large‑scale, multi‑cloud Kubernetes platform for a major banking client.

• Lead the platform team through technical challenges and best practices

• Support platform ownership - estimation, planning, stakeholder engagement

• Act as the technical front for the Managed Kubernetes Platform

• Drive strategic improvements and multi‑cloud expansion

• Support customer queries and platform adoption

• Kubernetes expertise across GKE, AKS, EKS

• Multi‑cloud experience - GCP, Azure, AWS

• Terraform for IaC

• Golang for tooling, proxies, extensions

• CI/CD - Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

• Security: Vault, Kong, Okta/OAuth

• Bonus: Full‑stack capability (Java, Scala, NestJS, ReactJS)

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.