Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP | Kubernetes | DevSecOps)
Reference: DC_PLE_2407_1784905302
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.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP | Kubernetes | DevSecOps)
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