Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP | Kubernetes | DevSecOps)

GCS
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
£600 – £620 pd

Salary

£600 – £620 pd

Seniority
Senior
Posted
24 Jul 2026 (3 weeks ago)

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

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