Technical Lead- Kubernetes

Reference: Kubernetes_1778499463

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.

What You'll Do

  • 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

What You Bring

  • 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.

£450.00 - £550.00
Per day
GBP450 - GBP550 per day

Sheffield

Contract

Added 11/05/2026
Reference: Kubernetes_1778499463

Technical Lead- Kubernetes

Sheffield
Contract

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