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 organisationsGCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed