Hybrid Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Incident Leadership

Capgemini; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Yearly bonus

Private medical care

Life insurance

Training and certifications

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Capgemini Polska is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to maintain production Kubernetes environments, lead Day-2 operations, and drive incident response. You will ensure service resilience through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes patching, node maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration with Linux, network, storage, virtualization, and application teams. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive Kubernetes/SRE/Platform experience in production
• Strong Linux and debugging skills in mission-critical environments
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management tools

Responsibilities

• Own incident intake, triage, and alert handling across platforms (Icinga, Checkmk, Grafana)
• Lead first-line incident response: validation, troubleshooting, evidence collection, escalation
• Diagnose cluster and node issues using K9s, Kibana, logs, and monitoring tools
• Build evidence packs and collaborate with virtualization, network, storage, Linux, and app teams
• Oversee weekly patching and health validation after patches
• Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle: cordon/uncordon, readiness checks
• Resolve storage, filesystem, and node health issues
• Maintain incident runbooks and operational checklists

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Linux administration

Incident management

Production support

On-call experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Icinga

Checkmk

Grafana

K9s

Kibana

Job description

Capgemini Polska is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to maintain production Kubernetes environments, lead Day-2 operations, and drive incident response. You will ensure service resilience through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes patching, node maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration with Linux, network, storage, virtualization, and application teams. Hybrid work model offered.