Platform Engineer (GCP)
2 days ago
Manchester
Prestigious opportunity for a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join a rapidly growing digital engineering team delivering cutting edge solutions across a diverse portfolio of clients.This 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 organisations.Collaborating closely with highly skilled, cross functional teams, you will work alongside engineers, architects, and product specialists to push boundaries and deliver impactful, high quality outcomes. 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, • 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 containerisation & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), • Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management, • Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar), • 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. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk