VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Contract Opportunity – VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer Start: April / May 2026 Duration: Initial 6 months (likely extension) Location: Remote (UK) with occasional onsite meetings Engagement: Via a leading global technology solutions provider supporting a major UK telecommunications and digital infrastructure organisation.

We are seeking an experienced VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer to support the design, build, and operation of enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms running on VMware. The role sits within a cloud and infrastructure engineering team and focuses on enabling secure, scalable container platforms for development teams. Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters on VMware platforms (e.g., TKG / VKS).
• Manage Kubernetes resources including clusters, namespaces, deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps and secrets.
• Implement platform capabilities such as networking, logging, monitoring, security and backup.
• Work with application teams to onboard workloads and promote best practices for containerisation and deployment.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes environments.
• Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible or similar).
• Implement security controls including RBAC, network policies and image scanning.
• Support operational reliability through monitoring, automation and incident response.

Essential Skills

• Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Experience with on-prem Kubernetes platforms (TKG / VKS preferred).
• Solid understanding of containers and container runtimes.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with Helm or similar Kubernetes packaging tools.
• Scripting skills (Python, Go or similar).

Desirable

• Experience with VMware-based infrastructure.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Understanding of enterprise Kubernetes security and IAM.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise platforms.

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