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Platform Engineer (GCP)
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Prestigious Opportunity for a Platform Engineer
Join a rapidly growing digital engineering team delivering cutting-edge solutions across a diverse portfolio of clients. This role 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 organizations.
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
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Skills Required:
- 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 containerization & 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
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)
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