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.

£600.00 - £620.00
Per day
GBP600 - GBP620 per day

Sheffield

Contract

Added 24/07/2026
Reference: DC_PLE_2407_1784905302

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP | Kubernetes | DevSecOps)

Sheffield
Contract

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