Kubernetes Platform Lead (SRE/Ops)

Kayak

Concord (MA)

On-site

USD 175,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+
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Work from almost anywhere for up to 20
Mental health and well-being programs
Paid parental leave
Generous vacation and time off
Volunteer time
Career development programs
Travel discounts
Lunch provided

Job summary

KAYAK is seeking a Manager, Kubernetes Operations to lead a platform engineering team responsible for a global container orchestration platform. You will guide strategy, drive reliability, and coordinate with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure workloads.

You will own lifecycle management, coach engineers, and advance observability and incident response practices while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team in a Massachusetts-based role.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in SRE/DevOps or platform engineering with 3+ years in leadership.
  • Proven track record running large-scale 24/7 Kubernetes environments.
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise: RBAC, network policy, hardening across on-prem and cloud.
  • Strong IaC background with Terraform/Ansible and multi-environment ops.

Responsibilities

  • Own Kubernetes platform roadmaps, reliability, and security across prod and non-prod.
  • Lead container platform engineers, hire and develop talent, foster inclusion.
  • Drive cluster lifecycle management: upgrades, provisioning, capacity planning.
  • Coach teams on best practices, observability, and incident response.
  • Collaborate with software, security, and infra teams to ensure reliable workloads.
  • Promote GitOps and IaC to reduce toil and improve consistency.
  • Enforce observability standards: metrics, alerts, dashboards, post-mortems.

Skills

Kubernetes
Engineering leadership
Cloud platforms
IaC (Terraform/Ansible)
Observability
SRE/DevOps
Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)
Communication
CS degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
GCP/AWS

Job description

KAYAK is seeking a Manager, Kubernetes Operations to lead a platform engineering team responsible for a global container orchestration platform. You will guide strategy, drive reliability, and coordinate with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure workloads.

You will own lifecycle management, coach engineers, and advance observability and incident response practices while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team in a Massachusetts-based role.

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