Platform Engineer (GCP)

Prestigious opportunity for a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join a rapidly growing digital engineering team delivering cutting edge solutions across a diverse portfolio of clients.This is hands on applying your deep engineering and architectural expertise to design, build, and evolve scalable platform solutions that drive digital transformation within some of the UK's most exciting organisations. Collaborating closely with highly skilled, cross functional teams, you will work alongside engineers, architects, and product specialists to push boundaries and deliver impactful, high quality outcomes.

Key responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain robust cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines

Contribute across the full software development lifecycle

Provide technical leadership and input into system and architecture design

Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.

Write clean, well documented code and contribute to technical documentation

Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues

Continuously improve platform performance, security, and reliability

Stay current with emerging technologies and drive innovation and adoption

Communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LET'S TALK!

Strong experience designing and managing cloud native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Hands-on expertise with services such as

Compute Engine, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Storage

VPC networking, IAM, Cloud Functions

Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)

Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Cloud Build)

Proficiency in scripting/programming (e.g., Python, Bash, Go)

Experience with containerisation & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management

Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar)

Strong Git/version control experience

Exposure to the following skills is advantageous but not essential: -

Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, on-premise).

Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet).

Knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices.

Familiarity with GCP AI/ML services (AI Platform, AutoML).

In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing career development and a market leading benefits package in a flexible, hybrid working environment.

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