Contract: Kubernetes Engineer Start Date: Jan 2025 Location: UK - Fully Remote Duration: 6 months extendable Day Rate: £550 - £590 per day Inside of IR35 Reference: 18315 Our client is looking to migrate its on-prem Hadoop-based data and analytics capability to a Kubernetes-based infrastructure. They already have a Kubernetes platform (the Internal Kubernetes Platform or IKP) but this is focused on the support of microservices / mesh applications. They require a large batch processing Kubernetes platform. Role Define a 'Kubernetes batch' stack To review the architecture of our existing IKP with a view to reuse components for Kubernetes batch. To help deploying such platform. To build / test automation scripts. To help debugging network, storage and security errors. Implement a secret management solution. Skills Required Min 3-4 years of hands on Kubernetes experience Large Banking client experience Experience with multiple K8S distributions - at least 2 distros. Knowledge of GKE desirable. Strong understanding of Kubernetes Security Able to navigate through CNI and CSI configurations / issues. Experience with Helm charts and Operators, Hands on experience in containerizing applications - elastic search, PostgreSQL, Grafana, etc Strong Linux skills including basic administration skills. Ansible and Terraform experience. Strong Kubernetes experience, we want to see people who have worked on Kubernetes implementation, involved in architecture, hands on migration etc K8S, Spark S3 Engine Terraform Ansible CI/CD Hadoop Linux / RHEL - on prem background / container management Grafanna or Elastic Search- for observability Kubernetes security Observability - Open telemetry Argo Other Skills Required Strong communication skills are essential as is experience of running a technical development/support team. Analytical approach to problem resolution. Enthusiastic about Big Data technologies, needs to be a proactive learner. Comfortable with agile planning methods. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Intellectually curios. Willing to try out solutions. Perseverant in the face of adversity Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. ADZN1_UKTJ