Contract: Kubernetes Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Location: UK - Fully Remote
Duration: 6 months extendable
Day Rate: £500 - £550 per day Inside of IR35
Reference: 18997

*Must have strong FS or large scale infrastructure where they have designed clusters from scratch both on AWS + GCP, must also have multiple Kubernetes certs (administrator, developer, expert etc).*

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.

Role

• Define a "Kubernetes batch" stack
• To review the architecture of our 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
• Experience with multiple K8S distributions - at least 2 distros.
• Experience building and deploying clusters
• Knowledge of GKE
• Experience with data lakes/data warehousing
• Strong 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, etc
• Strong 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 etc
• K8S, Spark
• S3 Engine
• Terraform
• Ansible
• CI/CD
• Hadoop
• Linux/RHEL - on prem background/container management
• Grafanna or Elastic Search- for observability
• Kubernetes security
• Observability - Open telemetry
• Argo

Other 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 adversity

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