Platform Engineer

TESTQ Technologies; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

TESTQ Technologies is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK to design, deploy and operate cloud-native platform services that support enterprise IAM. You will administer Kubernetes clusters, implement IaC with Terraform, drive CI/CD pipelines, and apply GitOps to automate deployments.

Strong Linux, networking, service mesh (Istio/Envoy), secrets management and PKI experience are essential, as is ensuring security governance and high availability for global platform deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong Cloud Platform Engineering experience with GCP.
• Expertise in Kubernetes Administration and Container Platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CICD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of GitOps deployment methodologies.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Knowledge of networking load balancing and cloud connectivity.
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy.
• Knowledge of Secrets Management and secure credential handling.
• Experience with PKI and Certificate Management.
• Understanding of Workload Identity concepts.
• Experience implementing observability solutions including logging monitoring and tracing.
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• Experience working within DevSecOps and SRE environments.
• Knowledge of performance tuning capacity planning and operational support.
• Experience supporting largescale enterprise or global platform deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting problemsolving and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloudnative platform services supporting enterprise IAM solutions
• Design deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and platform infrastructure
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code IaC solutions for automated deployments
• Implement and support CICD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows
• Manage cloud networking connectivity and platform security controls
• Implement observability solutions including logging monitoring metrics and distributed tracing
• Automate platform provisioning configuration management and operational activities
• Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and services
• Implement secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation
• Configure service mesh technologies and secure servicetoservice communications
• Manage ingress controllers API gateways routing and platform networking components
• Implement backup disaster recovery high availability and resilience capabilities
• Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms
• Ensure platform compliance with security governance and regulatory standards
• Optimize platform scalability performance reliability and cost efficiency
• Develop operational tooling automation scripts and selfservice platform capabilities
• Support incident management troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Collaborate with Security Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services
• Maintain platform documentation standards and operational runbooks
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices

Job description

• Build and maintain cloudnative platform services supporting enterprise IAM solutions
• Design deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and platform infrastructure
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code IaC solutions for automated deployments
• Implement and support CICD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows
• Manage cloud networking connectivity and platform security controls
• Implement observability solutions including logging monitoring metrics and distributed tracing
• Automate platform provisioning configuration management and operational activities
• Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and services
• Implement secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation
• Configure service mesh technologies and secure servicetoservice communications
• Manage ingress controllers API gateways routing and platform networking components
• Implement backup disaster recovery high availability and resilience capabilities
• Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms
• Ensure platform compliance with security governance and regulatory standards
• Optimize platform scalability performance reliability and cost efficiency
• Develop operational tooling automation scripts and selfservice platform capabilities
• Support incident management troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Collaborate with Security Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services
• Maintain platform documentation standards and operational runbooks
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices

To be successful in this role you should have

• Strong Cloud Platform Engineering experience with GCP
• Expertise in Kubernetes Administration and Container Platforms
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience building and maintaining CICD pipelines
• Strong understanding of GitOps deployment methodologies
• Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
• Knowledge of networking load balancing and cloud connectivity
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy
• Knowledge of Secrets Management and secure credential handling
• Experience with PKI and Certificate Management
• Understanding of Workload Identity concepts
• Experience implementing observability solutions including logging monitoring and tracing
• Strong scripting and automation skills
• Experience working within DevSecOps and SRE environments
• Knowledge of performance tuning capacity planning and operational support
• Experience supporting largescale enterprise or global platform deployments
• Strong troubleshooting problemsolving and stakeholder management skills

Skills