Team Lead Kubernetes Operations
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- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
This is a hybrid role with flexible onsite expectations, typically 1 to 2 days per week. New employees are expected to be onsite 2 to 3 times a week during their first three months to support onboarding and collaboration. #LI-HybridAbout The Role:Key Responsibilities:Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
- Own the end to end lifecycle of Kubernetes platforms, including design, build, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement
- Lead the technical direction for Kubernetes platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and security
- Define and enforce platform standards, governance, and best practices
- Act as a subject matter expert for Kubernetes and the container ecosystem
- Lead the implementation and evolution of the automation and GitOps pipelines to manage the clusters
- Drive configuration management, platform automation, and self-service capabilities
- Work with the DevOps team to integrate CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes platforms to support application delivery teams to manage their applications
- Continuously improving operational efficiency through tooling and automation
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers
- Provide technical guidance, workload prioritization, and performance feedback
- Foster a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and post incident learning
- Partner with application, platform, security, and infrastructure teams to support workloads running on Kubernetes
- Assist with translating application requirements into platform designs and deployment strategies
- Contribute to platform roadmaps and ensure alignment with broader technology strategy
- Support migration and modernization initiatives, including containerization of existing workloads
- 4-year degree (preferably in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or similar).
- 5+ years hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining Kubernetes based platforms
- 5+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of configuration management and automation tools.
- Proven hands-on experience installing, managing and designing Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift is preferred)
- Strong understanding of container orchestration, networking, storage, and security
- Strong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automation through pipelines and GitOps
- Familiar with Agile methodologies
- Experience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systems
- Experience building and operating automation and GitOps pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop technical teams
- Experience working in hybrid and/or cloud environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders
- Hands on experience working with OpenShift – Installation, Secret Management, Image Scanning, Certificates, SSL/TLS, persistent storage solutions, SELinux
- Technical knowledge of DevOps techniques
- Strong automation experience including deployment, monitoring, and scaling automation
- Hands on experience with Unix commands and scripting
- Familiar with Agile methodologies, and Waterfall
- Experience in administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Unix based operating systems
- Experience building and maintaining container-based images
- Kubernetes Platforms (OpenShift, AKS)
- Infrastructure (Server, Storage, Network)
- Linux Operating System Administration
- Virtualization, Scripting, Database, Architecture Design, Resource Management, Agile methodologies, and Waterfall
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills