Cloud-Native Platform Technical Lead (Kubernetes / AWS)

• Minimum 2 days onsite per week required in Zwijnaarde – Ghent, Belgium

Experience Required : 8+ Years

• Senior-level hands-on experience leading and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms
• Strong experience in cloud-native platform engineering with ownership of reliability, security, and scalability
• Proven experience working as a Technical Lead / Senior Individual Contributor
• Experience collaborating with Product Owners and cross-functional engineering teams

Primary Skills

• Kubernetes (Production Operations)
• Cluster operations, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning
• Rancher / RKE2
• Kubernetes provisioning, lifecycle management, operations
• AWS Cloud Services
• IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudWatch
• Linux Administration
• Networking, storage, system security hardening, scripting/automation
• Kubernetes & Cloud Networking
• TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/Certificates, ingress, load balancing, routing, firewalls
• Monitoring & Incident Management
• Observability (metrics, logs, alerts), incident response, root-cause analysis
• CI/CD & Version Control
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Documentation
• Architecture documents, runbooks, SOPs, onboarding guides