Kubernetes Engineer
Contract: Kubernetes Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Location: UK - Fully Remote
Duration: 6 months extendable
Day Rate: £550 - £590 per day Inside of IR35
Reference: 18315
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
- Large Banking client experience
- Experience with multiple K8S distributions - at least 2 distros. Knowledge of GKE desirable.
- Experince of 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
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Reference: 2888380032
Kubernetes Engineer

Posted on Jan 29, 2025 by NP Group
Contract: Kubernetes Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Location: UK - Fully Remote
Duration: 6 months extendable
Day Rate: £550 - £590 per day Inside of IR35
Reference: 18315
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
- Large Banking client experience
- Experience with multiple K8S distributions - at least 2 distros. Knowledge of GKE desirable.
- Experince of 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
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Reference: 2888380032

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