TECHNICAL LEAD L1(CONTRACT)

• Platform Migration & Environment Design: Lead the design and build out of a new managed container environment to replace existing VM based infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes (Client's internal Kube/EKS cluster) or another managed solution.

  Contribute meaningfully to the environment selection decision by weighing trade offs between managed solutions and direct control, considering maintenance overhead, operational control, and team capability.

  Own the migration of existing VM based workloads onto the new platform, managing sequencing, risk, and continuity of service throughout.

  Establish and maintain the standard workflow for deploying solutions: build locally containerise publish to Kube configure connectivity to Client internal system dependencies.

• Client Internal Networking & Connectivity: Configure and maintain networking between Kube and Client internal systems, including Shield, Snowflake, Client Connect, Floodgate, and other platform dependencies.

  Own namespace and compute provisioning on the shared Kube cluster, ensuring workloads are appropriately isolated and configured.

  Manage credentials, service accounts, and access controls across the full connectivity chain from container to downstream service.

  Act as the go to expert on how things connect within Client's internal network topology.

• Infrastructure Management: Own and manage cloud infrastructure across EMEIA using internal cloud tooling (and connected systems including Shield).

  Manage certificates, firewalls, resource pools, networking, and access controls.

  Ensure infrastructure is appropriately sized, resilient, and cost efficient.

  Maintain accurate documentation of infrastructure topology and configuration.

• VM Provisioning & Automation (Existing Estate): Maintain and operate existing virtual machines, primarily on RHEL, while migration to the new environment is in progress.

  Build and maintain standardized, repeatable provisioning processes (e.g., via Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent IaC tooling).

  Manage package deployment, software repositories, databases, and web servers.

  Own the patching and update lifecycle for managed systems.

• Proven experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering role.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes - deploying, configuring, and operating workloads in a shared or managed cluster environment.
• Experience containerising applications: writing Dockerfiles, managing images, publishing to a registry, and debugging container level issues.
• Strong networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS/SSL certificates, firewall rules, load balancing, VPNs, and service to service connectivity.
• Comfort operating in environments where the architecture is still being defined - able to contribute to the decision, then execute once direction is set.
• Hands on experience with RHEL (or equivalent enterprise Linux) - provisioning, hardening, package management (yum/dnf), systemd services.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure, ideally in an enterprise private/hybrid cloud environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code or configuration management tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar).
• Solid scripting ability in Bash and at least one higher level language (Python preferred).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
• Strong incident diagnosis skills - able to work from vague symptoms to root cause using logs, metrics, and reasoning.
• Comfortable working with AI generated or AI assisted codebases: reading, extending, and debugging solutions without a full traditional authorship history.
• Clear written and verbal communication - able to translate infrastructure complexity for non technical stakeholders.

• Experience with AWS or particularly EKS.
• Familiarity with Client's internal platform tooling: Kube, Shield, Client Connect, Floodgate, or similar.
• Experience integrating with Snowflake, including managing drivers, credentials, and network access.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Exposure to security tooling, vulnerability scanning, or compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks).
• Familiarity with secrets management tooling (Vault, CyberArk, or similar).
• Experience working in a regulated or enterprise environment with change management processes.

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