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Track Manager - 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 maintains the reliability, availability, security, and performance of an on-premises enterprise Kubernetes platform built on Red Hat OpenShift for critical business applications. The role covers incident response, cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, capacity planning, automation, observability, and vulnerability remediation, using technologies including Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, HashiCorp Vault, and Skopeo. The engineer collaborates with platform, infrastructure, security, and application teams in a global follow-the-sun support environment.

Qualifications

  • Three to seven 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.
  • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, scheduling, storage, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Experience implementing GitOps practices with Flux.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, including building dashboards and alerts.
  • Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets-management patterns.
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, and ingress technologies.
  • Experience managing CVEs, security advisories, patching, and platform remediation.
  • Experience with container image inspection, vulnerability analysis, and security tools such as Skopeo.
  • Experience developing automation with Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
  • Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, observability, automation, incident management, and capacity planning.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a globally distributed engineering environment.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
  • Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement post-incident improvements.
  • Test, certify, and deploy platform enhancements, component releases, and infrastructure upgrades.
  • Automate operational tasks to 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 security vulnerabilities across Kubernetes, OpenShift, operating systems, and supporting components.
  • Improve observability through monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerting.
  • Coordinate operational support with global SRE, infrastructure, security, and L2 operations teams.
  • Contribute to platform reliability, self-service, modernization, automation, and customer experience initiatives.

Skills

AWSBashCloudFormationFluxGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxLokiOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRHELTerraformVaultEKS

Work schedule

Global follow-the-sun supportOn-call rotations

Relocation

No