Platform Ops Lead: Kubernetes & Linux

Ascendion; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking an experienced Platform Operations Lead to own a production environment spanning Kubernetes, Linux/RHEL, middleware and infrastructure services. You will guide a team of 4–6 engineers while hands-on in operations, patching, hardening and lifecycle management.

Lead day-to-day operations for container platforms, manage incidents and drive RCAs, while coordinating with cross-functional teams on changes, capacity planning and DR/BC activities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure/platform operations experience.
• Production experience with Kubernetes/container platforms.
• Experience with OS patching and security hardening.
• Experience managing production incidents, changes and RCAs.
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms (Nutanix/VMware/Azure Stack).
• Troubleshooting across networking, firewalls and load balancers.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Leadership

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Troubleshooting

Monitoring & observability

Capacity planning

Security/compliance

Networking

Tools

Nutanix

VMware

Azure Stack

Job description

Ascendion is seeking an experienced Platform Operations Lead to own a production environment spanning Kubernetes, Linux/RHEL, middleware and infrastructure services. You will guide a team of 4–6 engineers while hands-on in operations, patching, hardening and lifecycle management.

Lead day-to-day operations for container platforms, manage incidents and drive RCAs, while coordinating with cross-functional teams on changes, capacity planning and DR/BC activities.