Senior On-Prem Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Bare Metal)

GCS Recruitment; England; On-site; GBP 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is partnering with a world-leading tech company to build and secure Kubernetes infrastructure on bare-metal on-premises. The role focuses on hands-on engineering to create production-grade clusters, with emphasis on security, performance and reliability.

You will design, deploy and optimize the underlying Linux, networking, storage and compute environments, and contribute to logging and observability pipelines. On-site with an on-call rota and clearance requirements.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Kubernetes engineering experience.
• Proven experience building Kubernetes clusters on bare metal or on-premises infrastructure, not just operating existing environments.
• Strong Linux infrastructure engineering and networking knowledge.
• Solid understanding of platform security, infrastructure hardening and security-by-design principles.
• Ability to work independently on complex infrastructure engineering challenges.
• SC or DV security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure.
• Engineer and optimise the underlying Linux, networking, storage and compute environments.
• Implement Kubernetes security controls, hardening and infrastructure-level security best practices.
• Design, deploy and improve logging and observability pipelines using Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
• Integrate platform logging and monitoring with wider security operations and SIEM tooling.
• Support network security monitoring and visibility across infrastructure and hardware network appliances.
• Improve the effectiveness of security tooling, including EDR, vulnerability scanners and antivirus solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure challenges and continuously improve platform reliability, performance and security.
• Participate in an on-call rota supporting critical infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes engineering

Bare-metal infrastructure

Linux infrastructure

Networking

Security by design

Independent problem solving

SC or DV clearance

Tools

kubeadm

Kubespray

RKE2

Fluent Bit

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

GCS Recruitment is partnering with a world-leading tech company to build and secure Kubernetes infrastructure on bare-metal on-premises. The role focuses on hands-on engineering to create production-grade clusters, with emphasis on security, performance and reliability.

You will design, deploy and optimize the underlying Linux, networking, storage and compute environments, and contribute to logging and observability pipelines. On-site with an on-call rota and clearance requirements.