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Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer – Leeds (Hybrid)
This is a permanent role, working two days in the office and three days remotely each week.
This role sits within our central Cloud Platform team, supporting a portfolio of applications built on Google Cloud and open-source technologies. You’ll play a key part in designing and delivering cutting-edge GCP solutions while championing best practices across:
- Security
- Automation
- Observability
Join a hands-on team where you can make immediate impact from day one.
We’re currently building a strong talent pipeline for this position. While this isn’t an immediate vacancy, we’re eager to connect with senior engineers for future opportunities as the team scales.
About the Role
We seek platform engineers with a product mindset—not direction takers, but builders shaping the infrastructure as a self-sustaining service. Your focus:
- Reducing manual effort for engineers
- Building self-service "golden paths" for seamless deployments
- Enabling teams to ship safely, quickly, and with confidence
Responsibilities
Design and maintain scalable, automated platform capabilities, including:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules
- Standardised GitOps pipelines for faster developer delivery
Contribute to architecture, scaling, and estate management of a growing enterprise GCP portfolio, ensuring:
- Resilience under load
- High performance at scale
Build and enhance observability:
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- Implement Prometheus, Grafana, and Cloud Operations Suite
- Maximise uptime and reduce mean time to repair
Collaborate with security teams to embed "shift-left" practices:
- Integrate IAM, networking controls, and governance seamlessly into engineer workflows
Support and mentor team engineers by:
- Participating in code reviews
- Contributing to clear documentation
- Fostering a high-trust, collaborative environment
Requirements
Essential
- Proven GCP expertise: Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-scale Google Cloud solutions
- Infrastructure automation: Proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, ArgoCD)
- Production-grade workloads: Managing containerised, microservices-based environments
- Observability-driven reliability: Using tools (e.g., Prometheus) for performance, logging, and monitoring analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration: Strong communicator skilled in mentoring engineers and working with multidisciplinary teams
Desirable
- GCP certifications: Cloud Architect, Cloud Security Engineer, Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Advanced networking skills: Experience with Shared VPCs, Private Service Connect, or interconnects
- Cost optimisation: Knowledge of tracking, analysing, and optimising cloud spend in engineering teams
- API management: Familiarity with Apigee and securing routing, traffic control, OAuth, and OpenID Connect
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Benefits
- Competitive salary + Performance bonus
- 25 days annual leave (expandable to 30 days by purchasing 5 additional days)
- Flexible absences: Birthday off, plus 3 extra days leave after 5 years' service
- Wellbeing support: Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover, dental insurance + more
- Pension: 10% matched employer contribution
- Car benefit scheme
- Upskilling: Access to an online learning platform to advance your career
- Culture: Join an innovative, fast-growing team with a passionate engineering mission
About Us
Liberty Global is a Liberty Global company, a dynamic business services provider specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale, and value to our customers—helping collaborative teams reach peaks of productivity while reducing friction.
At Liberty, we embrace curiosity, customer-centricity, and forward-looking agility as we drive growth across Business, Procurement, and Financial Services. Join us, and unlock: 🔹 Freedom to innovate 🔹 A supportive, inclusive team environment 🔹 Room to grow in a rapidly evolving sector
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; diversity is one of our greatest strengths.
Ready to shape our platform engineering future? Apply today!
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