Internal Kubernetes Platform Engineering Team Lead

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 15900 - 24300 PLN gross

What will you do?

Join a global Platform Engineering team responsible for delivering and maintaining an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide. You will lead a local team in Poland, drive platform automation and lifecycle management, improve reliability and performance, and support the evolution from traditional DevOps practices to a mature Platform Engineering model within a large international banking environment.

Your tasks

• Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management for the Internal Kubernetes Platform

• Build automation, APIs and platform operations solutions to manage infrastructure and service lifecycle

• Improve reliability, quality and efficiency of platform and service upgrades

• Monitor, measure and optimize system performance, availability and capacity

• Create dashboards and visualizations to increase platform transparency

• Develop self-healing solutions and automate operational processes

• Support software development teams with platform engineering, architecture and operational guidance

• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows when required

• Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team

• Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities

• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows, including approximately two weekends per month

Your skills

• Hands-on experience with Linux, containers and Kubernetes in production environments

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem components such as Istio, Cilium and CSI solutions

• Experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation and lifecycle management

• Proficiency in Bash and programming with Python or Golang

• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible and infrastructure orchestration tools

• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk and Datadog

• Experience working with GitHub and software development lifecycle processes

• Knowledge of infrastructure operations and enterprise platform management

• ITIL awareness

• Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset

• Fluent English communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience working in a large-scale enterprise banking environment

• Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms

• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams

• Knowledge of Private Cloud platforms

We offer

• Hybrid work our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month

• Availability to participate in planned maintenance activities outside standard business hours, including approximately two weekends per month

• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team

• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)

• Online training and certifications

• Access to e-learning platform

• Social events