Technical Lead Platform & Infrastructure Operations - contractLocation: Remote across Poland, Romania and HungaryDuration: 6 months initiallyMy client is looking for a Technical Lead to lead operations for a newly built, large-scale on-premises infrastructure and Kubernetes platform. This hands-on leadership role covers bare-metal compute, containers, networking and storage, alongside engineering team management and major incident response.Key Responsibilities: Own technical standards, platform documentation and operational runbooks.Lead automation, CI/CD and Git Ops pipelines using Git-backed configuration, Ansible and Argo CD.Manage and develop engineers, owning the on-call rota and escalation process.Act as the L3 escalation point and incident commander during major incidents.Coordinate patching, upgrades and maintenance under change control.Manage hardware vendor escalations and direct on-site remote-hands support.Communicate technical issues, risks and decisions clearly to clients and senior stakeholders. Requirements: Bare-metal provisioning and server lifecycle management at scale using MAAS,



Foreman or equivalent.Strong production Kubernetes administration across multiple clusters, including upgrades, CNI networking and CSI-backed storage.Deep Linux administration across RHEL or Ubuntu, including kernel, driver and performance troubleshooting.Strong TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing and VLAN knowledge.Container image lifecycle management using registries such as Harbor or JFrog Artifactory.Production ownership of automation, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.Proven experience managing technical teams, production runbooks, on-call coverage and major incidents.Python, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform or Pulumi.Petabyte-scale storage, such as VAST Data, and Kubernetes CSI integration.GPU/HPC infrastructure, RDMA, Infini Band or Run.NVIDIA platform tooling, model-serving or inference operations.Dragonfly image distribution, liquid cooling or CDU awareness.RHCE, CKA, cloud certifications or ITIL 4 Create, Deliver and Support. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Technical Lead Platform & Infrastructure Operations - Contract (Cantabria)
🏢 Auxo Talent
📍 Cantabria