Platform Operations Lead – Kubernetes & Linux

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Platform Operations Lead to take ownership of a production environment spanning Kubernetes, Linux/RHEL, enterprise middleware and infrastructure services. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will guide a team of 4–6 infrastructure engineers while remaining directly involved in platform operations, troubleshooting, patching, hardening and lifecycle management.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day operations for Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of 4–6 infrastructure engineers.
• Manage production incidents, escalations and root-cause analysis.
• Plan and execute infrastructure changes, patching, upgrades and lifecycle activities.
• Maintain RHEL/Linux environments, including OS patching and security hardening.
• Install, configure and troubleshoot enterprise platform components and middleware.
• Work across application, infrastructure, network, security and customer teams to resolve complex issues.
• Maintain monitoring, logging and observability across the platform environment.
• Support capacity planning, performance optimisation and service reliability.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity activities.

About you

• 7+ years of relevant infrastructure, systems or platform operations experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Kubernetes / container platforms in production.
• Solid Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL.
• Experience with OS patching, hardening and platform lifecycle management.
• Experience managing production incidents, changes and RCA.
• Working knowledge of Nutanix, VMware, Azure Stack or similar enterprise virtualisation/private-cloud platforms.
• Practical troubleshooting experience across networking, firewalls and load balancers.
• Experience providing technical direction, mentoring or coordination within infrastructure/platform teams.
• Experience working in environments with formal security, compliance or change-control requirements.