GCP Platform Engineer - £100K+

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard represents a world-leading FinTech expanding in London, offering strong WFH flexibility. They seek a capable GCP and Platform Engineer to evolve their cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and automated infrastructure.

You'll join a central team delivering complex projects through agile methods, focusing on reliability, scalability and security in a sophisticated GCP environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of GCP (Data Proc, Data Flow, BigQuery).
• IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible or Puppet.
• Kubernetes and Docker experience; Linux infrastructure understanding.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure.
• Evolve deployment pipelines and release engineering in a sophisticated GCP environment.
• Research and implement new tools to improve reliability, scalability and security.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Jenkins

Linux

CI/CD

Big Data

Hadoop

Tools

Data Proc

Data Flow

BigQuery

Job description

Our client is one of the world’s leading FinTechs.

With a global reach, they build award winning trading, payment and banking software.

They’re growing in London (with great WFH flexibility) and are looking for a strong GCP and Platform Engineer to join them to support and evolve their Cloud solution, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automated infrastructure and release engineering.

You’ll manage platforms to ensure reliability, scalability and security and you’ll be able to develop and implement systems enhancements, design new automated infrastructure and implement deployment pipelines in a sophisticated Cloud (GCP) environment as well as researching new tools.

You’ll be part of a central team working to deliver complex projects through agile methods and you’ll need a desire to continually improve your own skills, to look for efficiencies, optimisations, and ways to improve through automation.

Requirements:

• Experience in a similar DevOps, SRE or Cloud Engineering role
• Great knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform – Data Proc, Data Flow, Big Query etc
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes containers (Docker useful too)
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins
• Good understanding of Linux infrastructure
• Experience with Big Data and Hadoop would be ideal too