Contract : Kubernetes Engineer
Start Date : ASAP
Location : UK - Fully Remote
Duration : 6 months extendable
Day Rate : £ - £ per day Inside of IR35
Reference :
- Must have strong Financial Services or large scale infrastructure where you have designed, deployed and managed on premise clusters from scratch. Must have multiple Kubernetes certs (administrator, developer, expert etc) with excellent people skills
Our client is looking to migrate its on-prem Hadoop-based data and analytics capability to a Kubernetes-based infrastructure. They already have a Kubernetes platform (the Internal Kubernetes Platform or IKP) but this is focused on the support of microservices / mesh applications. They require a large batch processing Kubernetes platform. Must have Kubernetes on Prem and Cloud experience
Role
Define a "Kubernetes batch" stackTo review the architecture of existing IKP with a view to reuse components for Kubernetes batch.To help deploying such platform. To build / test automation scripts.To help debugging network, storage and security errors.Implement a secret management solution.Skills Required
Min 3-4 years of hands-on Kubernetes experience (on Premise and Cloud)Experience with multiple K8S distributions - at least 2 distros.Experience building and deploying clustersKnowledge of GKEExperience with data lakes / data warehousingStrong understanding of Kubernetes security.Able to navigate through CNI and CSI configurations / issues.Experience with Helm charts and Operators,Hands on experience in containerizing applications - elastic search, PostgreSQL, Grafana, etcStrong Linux skills including basic administration skills.Ansible and Terraform experience.Strong Kubernetes experience, we want to see people who have worked on Kubernetes implementation, involved in architecture, hands on migration etcK8S, SparkS3 EngineTerraformAnsibleCI / CDHadoopLinux / RHEL - on prem background / container managementGrafanna or Elastic Search- for observabilityKubernetes securityObservability - Open telemetryArgoOther Skills Required
Strong communication skills are essential as is experience of running a technical development / support team.Analytical approach to problem resolution.Enthusiastic about Big Data technologies, needs to be a proactive learner.Comfortable with agile planning methods.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.Intellectually curios. Willing to try out solutions.Perseverant in the face of adversityNetworking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.