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.
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