Kubernetes Engineer

Gloucestershire Contract £500-625

We're currently seeking a number of experienced and ambitious Kubernetes Engineers to work with our exceptional client, a world class brand in a secure environment to support major challenging and highly rewarding projects across this complex organisation.

These contract roles will require you to hold security clearance prior to assignment. Opportunities are available in Gloucestershire.

These Kubernetes Engineer roles are conducted in an environment that is far from ordinary, therefore, we're not looking for ordinary. You'll have the potential to work effectively across a number of teams and a diverse range of projects within our technology community.

You will be a self starter and practical person who has knowledge of creating/design/installation of Kubernetes clusters, containers. You will be able to debug problematic configurations and systems under stress is vital.

This role is initially looking to healthcheck an existing system and then move to fix/modify or replace. You will report to the Infrastructure team lead with initial findings and recommendations. Due to critical importance of the current architecture, prioritization of issues and fixes are key. The role is largely a tech role but you will need to be a team player and collaboratorand who is happy to contribute knowledge and experience t the wider team.

Your experience:

Experience of debugging, supporting and installing enterprise wide Kubernetes clusters that are robust, maintainable, secure, supportable, scalable and have good performance
Workinging with Team Leads to ensure delivery of accurate project documentations and designs
Follow a fast, iterative development approach
Work collaboratively as part of the broader Infrastructure team, sharing ideas and experience wherever possible
Producing detailed technical design specifications and documentation
Experience in finding solutions to systems under stress
Experience (practical) of Kubernetes, Ceph, Docker, Harbor, Terraform and Linux VM's servers
Experience of various operating systems (Windows/Linux)
Build & Release management, with use of tools such as Maven, ANT, Ivy, puppet, ansible
And ideally…:
Puppet, Foreman, FreeIPA, pfSense, vCenter
Experience of Atlassian tool suite

In return:

You'll be joining an ambitious, high level team of like-minded and highly skilled individuals, all focussed on delivering the best possible outcome.

We are focused on bringing and nurturing the best talent into our team, recruiting widely to ensure we are inclusive and providing a supportive and safe environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work to be able to deliver at their best.

This is literally a once in a lifetime opportunity to step away from the mundane and forge your own path in a totally new direction working on life and culture changing projects.

If you're ready for a challenge like no other, apply today.

These roles are available on up to 24 month contracts (inside IR35) and offer flexible and hybrid working in most cases.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.