Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: GCP, Kubernetes & DevSecOps

The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners.

In this role, you will:

• Build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting the IDAM 2.0 programme.
• Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows.
• Manage cloud networking, connectivity and platform security.
• Implement platform observability including logging, monitoring, metrics and distributed tracing.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.
• Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and supporting services.
• Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.
• Configure service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication.
• Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components.
• Implement platform resilience, backup, disaster recovery and high availability capabilities.
• Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms.
• Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Optimise platform performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Develop operational tooling, scripts and self-service capabilities.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services.
• Contribute to platform standards, operational documentation and runbooks.
• Support environment management across development, test, pilot and production environments.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices.
  

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Key Skills & Experience

Essential Skills

• Cloud Platform Engineering (GCP)
• Kubernetes Administration
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitOps
• Linux Administration
• Networking and Load Balancing
• Service Mesh Technologies (Istio/Envoy)
• Container Platforms
• Secrets Management
• PKI and Certificate Management
• Workload Identity
• Observability (Logging, Monitoring and Tracing)
• Scripting and Automation
• DevSecOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Performance and Capacity Management
• Operational Support
• Global Deployment Strategies
• Positive can-do attitude adept at solutionising in large, complex organisations

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.