platform engineer

Cavendish Professionals is building and scaling CobaltCore, a Kubernetes-native OpenStack Control Plane operating across a multi-cluster topology. The platform uses Kubernetes operators, shared reconciler patterns, and FluxCD-based GitOps delivery.

• Take E2E ownership of building, maintaining, and scaling Kubernetes-native platform components and reusable operator automations;
• Run Kubernetes operators and implement GitOps delivery patterns with FluxCD across multi-cluster environments;
• Write requirements and review translated technical designs, implementation tasks, and platform guidelines;
• Improve the onboarding of new operators, including Keystone, Horizon, and Glance, onto the shared reconciler scaffolding;
• Implement security-by-design, least privilege, and compliance standards across secure software delivery workflows;
• Provide AI guidance on Kubernetes operator patterns, CRD design, FluxCD-based GitOps, and OpenStack control-plane operations.

• 8+ Years of commercial experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering;
• Propose innovations, write clear technical documentation in Markdown, guide non-technical audiences, and drive operational excellence under pressure;
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes-native platform technologies, CRDs, sub-reconciler patterns, webhooks, and finalizers;
• Proven experience with GitOps concepts and Git-based delivery workflows using FluxCD;
• Practical experience building Kubernetes operators/controllers with Operator SDK, controller-runtime, or Kubebuilder;
• Expertise in IaaS, Kubernetes, and Crossplane infrastructure automation;
• Proficiency in programming or scripting, preferably with Go or other major programming languages;
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions-based development workflows;
• Experience with Kubernetes-native testing frameworks, including envtest, Chainsaw E2E, Tempest, and Chaos Mesh;
• Very good English for daily international collaboration.

• Contract of Employment / B2B Contract.