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SeniorAdministrator - Kubernetes, Terraform

HCLTech · SCT, United Kingdom
SCT, United KingdomExp: 3-7 yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
SCT, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

The Site Reliability Engineer helps ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and security of a large-scale on-premises Kubernetes platform built on Red Hat OpenShift for critical business applications. The role covers incident response, cluster lifecycle management, automation, capacity planning, vulnerability remediation, and observability, using technologies including Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, HashiCorp Vault, and Skopeo.

Qualifications

  • 3–7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or infrastructure operations.
  • Production experience operating and supporting Red Hat OpenShift or enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
  • Experience implementing GitOps practices with Flux.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, including building dashboards and alerts.
  • Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault and secrets management in Kubernetes environments.
  • Knowledge of CVE management, security advisories, patching, and platform remediation.
  • Experience with container image inspection, vulnerability analysis, and supply-chain security tooling such as Skopeo.
  • Experience developing automation with Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
  • Participate in incident response, on-call support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
  • Test, certify, and deploy platform enhancements, component releases, and infrastructure upgrades with engineering teams.
  • Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve scalability, consistency, and resilience.
  • Develop and maintain tools, scripts, dashboards, runbooks, and operational documentation.
  • Manage cluster upgrades, capacity planning, performance optimization, and production readiness reviews.
  • Assess, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across Kubernetes, OpenShift, operating systems, and supporting components.
  • Improve monitoring, metrics, logging, alerting, and reliability practices.
  • Collaborate with global SRE, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to provide consistent support.

Skills

AWSBashCloudFormationFluxGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxLokiOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRHELTerraformVaultEKS

Languages

PythonGoBash

Work schedule

Global follow-the-sun support modelOn-call rotations

Industry

Enterprise computing

Relocation

No