Kubernetes Lead Engineer – HPC Infrastructure

Kubernetes Lead Engineer – HPC Infrastructure Contract | London | Hedge Fund I'm currently partnering with a leading hedge fund based in London to find a Kubernetes Lead Engineer with strong experience in High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure . Role Overview As the Kubernetes Team Lead , you will be responsible for designing, building, and managing a robust container orchestration platform to support large-scale, compute-intensive workloads in a high-performance trading environment. You'll lead a team of engineers, define best practices, and ensure observability, scalability, and performance across the platform. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and operation of Kubernetes platforms (on-prem & cloud-native) Manage HPC infrastructure to support trading workloads and scientific compute Guide a team of engineers across distributed environments Define and enforce best practices for infrastructure scalability, performance, and monitoring Implement observability tooling and ensure high platform availability Collaborate with other engineering teams to drive automation and operational efficiency Requirements 8 years in infrastructure/platform engineering roles Deep expertise in Kubernetes (both on-premises and cloud-native) Strong Linux (preferably RHEL) systems administration skills Proven experience with HPC workloads or scientific computing clusters Hands-on experience with observability tools : Prometheus, Grafana, Loki Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform , Ansible CI/CD experience with GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) Prior experience leading engineering teams in distributed environments