DevOps Engineer

GCP Platform Engineer

Location: Hybrid /Manchester

Salary: Up to £80,000 + Benefits

Type: Permanent

The CompanyWe're partnering with an innovative platform business that is investing heavily in its cloud infrastructure and engineering capabilities. They are looking for an experienced GCP Platform Engineer to help build, automate and scale a modern cloud platform used across multiple products and teams. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering environment where infrastructure is treated as code, automation is a priority, and engineers are empowered to drive technical decisions. The RoleAs a GCP Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the company's cloud platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You'll work closely with software engineers and DevOps teams to create scalable, secure and highly available infrastructure. Key responsibilities include:

Designing and implementing cloud infrastructure on GCP

Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Automating infrastructure provisioning and deployment pipelines

Managing Kubernetes and containerised workloads

Implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions

Driving platform reliability, security and best practices

Collaborating with engineering teams to improve developer experience

Skills & ExperienceEssential

Strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Experience building CI/CD pipelines

Knowledge of Kubernetes / GKE and container technologies

Experience with Linux and scripting (Bash, Python or Go)

Understanding of networking, IAM and cloud security principles

Experience with monitoring and observability tooling

Desirable

Experience with GitOps practices

Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana or similar tools

Experience in a platform engineering or SRE environment

Certifications in GCP are advantageous

What's On Offer

Salary up to £80,000

Flexible hybrid

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Training and certification budget

Opportunity to shape a growing cloud platform and influence technical direction

If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering, and want to work with modern GCP technologies at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity.