A leading financial services client is undertaking a large-scale technology transformation, modernising its infrastructure platforms to support high-performance computing, low-latency trading systems, and cloud-native services. As a Kubernetes Engineer you will design, build, and operate container orchestration platforms to ensure resilience, scalability, and security of mission-critical workloads across global markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters (on-prem and cloud) supporting high-availability workloads.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) for repeatable, automated cluster deployments (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for containerised applications.

• Ensure observability of the Kubernetes platform using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).

• Optimise performance and scalability of container platforms to support low-latency trading and high-throughput data workloads.

• Collaborate with networking and security teams to enforce strong security, RBAC, and compliance standards (including CIS benchmarks).

• Support platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management with minimal service disruption.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, networking, and applications running on Kubernetes.

• Mentor engineers and promote best practices for containerisation and microservices adoption.