Lead GCP & AI Platform Engineer

Addition; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Addition, in partnership with a leading technology consultancy, is recruiting a Lead Cloud Engineer for a high-profile engagement within the iGaming sector. You will own the technical direction, lead the engineers delivering it and help build secure, scalable and production‑ready platforms in a highly regulated environment.

The role blends platform engineering with AI infrastructure, focusing on GKE, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, resilience and cost optimisation to deliver robust environments and

Qualifications

• Strong Google Cloud Platform expertise and hands-on leadership.
• Experience designing and operating AI platforms in regulated environments.
• Client-facing consulting experience and ability to lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of a client engagement and lead the delivery engineers.
• Define engineering standards across automation, testing and security.
• Design and build Google Cloud landing zones and platform foundations.
• Define governance for multi-team, regulated environments.
• Run and scale container platforms across GKE Autopilot, GKE Standard and Cloud Run.
• Deploy and operate AI models and agents with governance, logging and cost controls.

Skills

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

SRE

CI/CD

Platform Engineering

AI infrastructure

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Cloud Run

Job description

Addition, in partnership with a leading technology consultancy, is recruiting a Lead Cloud Engineer for a high-profile engagement within the iGaming sector. You will own the technical direction, lead the engineers delivering it and help build secure, scalable and production‑ready platforms in a highly regulated environment.

The role blends platform engineering with AI infrastructure, focusing on GKE, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, resilience and cost optimisation to deliver robust environments and