The Kubernetes Platform Engineer will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building a highly resilient, scalable, performant and developer friendly GKE Kubernetes Platform in an automated and efficient manner. The Platform Engineer will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The engineer will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP and the Cloud Native community.
responsibilities :
Build and manage the HSBC GKE Kubernetes Platform to easily let application teams deploy to Kubernetes. Mentor and guide support engineers, represent the platform technically through talks, blog posts and discussions.
Engineer solutions on HSBC GKE Kubernetes Platform using Coding, Automation and Infrastructure as Code methods (e.g. Python, Tekton, Flux, Helm, Terraform). Manage a fleet of GKE clusters from a centrally provided solution.
Ensure compliance with centrally defined security controls and with operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency and Containers). Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards. Provide impact assessments were requested for changes proposed on HSBC GCP core platform.
Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities. Engineering activities to implement patches for VMs and containers provided centrally.
Support non-functional testing.
Update support and operational documentation as required.
Fault find and support Applications teams.
On a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage.
requirements-expected :
Demonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience – building, configuring and extending Kubernetes platforms.
Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Python etc.).
Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
Experience of working with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt).
Experience working within an Agile environment.
Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python or Go.
Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
offered :
Competitive salary
Annual performance-based bonus
Additional bonuses for recognition awards
Multisport card
Private medical care
Life insurance
One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN)
Corporate parties & events
CSR initiatives
Nursery discounts
Financial support with trainings and education
Social fund
Flexible working hours
Free parking
benefits :
sharing the costs of sports activities
private medical care
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
