Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP) – Kubernetes & IaC

Altech Group Ltd; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £70,000

Matched pension

Job summary

Altech Group Ltd is seeking a Platform Engineer for a hybrid role in Stockport. You will design and scale a cloud-native platform used by millions, building scalable infrastructure on GCP and developing IaC with Terraform.

You’ll enhance automation, developer tooling, and platform reliability. Ideal candidate enjoys variety, works with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern tooling, and collaborates closely with software engineers to deliver reliable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in a cloud-native environment.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure on GCP.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Improve automation, deployment pipelines and operational efficiency.
• Build self-service platform tooling for development teams.
• Collaborate with software engineers to deliver reliable platform solutions.
• Improve platform security, monitoring and reliability.
• Participate in a paid on-call rota for platform availability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Altech Group Ltd is seeking a Platform Engineer for a hybrid role in Stockport. You will design and scale a cloud-native platform used by millions, building scalable infrastructure on GCP and developing IaC with Terraform.

You’ll enhance automation, developer tooling, and platform reliability. Ideal candidate enjoys variety, works with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern tooling, and collaborates closely with software engineers to deliver reliable platform solutions.