Kubernetes Platform Engineering Lead — Hybrid (Poland)

GFT TECHNOLOGIES SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 177,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Benefits package including medical,スポ,

Lunch subsidy

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE in Kraków, Poland, is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead a local team and manage an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide.

You will drive automation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement, collaborating with a global engineering team in a large enterprise banking context. The role requires hands-on Kubernetes, Linux, and programming experience, with a hybrid work setup in Kraków.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Linux, containers and Kubernetes in production.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem components such as Istio, Cilium and CSI solutions.
• Experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in Bash and programming with Python or Golang.
• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible and infrastructure orchestration tools.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk and Datadog.
• Experience working with GitHub and software development lifecycle processes.
• Knowledge of infrastructure operations and enterprise platform management.
• Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead a local engineering team in Poland and drive platform automation.
• Build automation, APIs and platform operations solutions to manage infrastructure and service lifecycle.
• Improve reliability, quality and efficiency of platform and service upgrades.
• Monitor, measure and optimize system performance, availability and capacity.
• Create dashboards and visualizations to increase platform transparency.
• Develop self-healing solutions and automate operational processes.
• Support software development teams with platform engineering, architecture and guidance.
• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows when required.
• Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team.
• Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities.
• Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows, including weekends.

Skills

Team leadership

Platform engineering

Automation

DevOps experience

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Cilium

CSI

Bash

Python

Golang

Jenkins

Ansible

Datadog

Splunk

GitHub

Job description

GFT Technologies SE in Kraków, Poland, is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead a local team and manage an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide.

You will drive automation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement, collaborating with a global engineering team in a large enterprise banking context. The role requires hands-on Kubernetes, Linux, and programming experience, with a hybrid work setup in Kraków.