Technical Lead Platform & Infrastructure Operations - contract

Location: Remote across Poland, Romania and Hungary

Duration: 6 months initially

My 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 GitOps pipelines using Git-backed configuration, Ansible and ArgoCD.
- 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, ArgoCD, Terraform or Pulumi.
- Petabyte-scale storage, such as VAST Data, and Kubernetes CSI integration.
- GPU/HPC infrastructure, RDMA, InfiniBand 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.

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