Platform Engineer

TESTQ Technologies LTD.; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TESTQ Technologies LTD. in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Cloud Platform Engineer to build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting enterprise IAM solutions.

You will design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and platform infrastructure, and develop IaC to automate deployments. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and observability, while ensuring secure, scalable operations in a GCP environment.

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 CI/CD 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 deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving 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 CI/CD 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 service-to-service communications.
• Manage ingress controllers, API gateways 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 self-service 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.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes Administration

GitOps deployment

Linux administration

Networking & cloud connectivity

Observability & tracing

Scripting & automation

DevSecOps / SRE

Service mesh (Istio/Envoy)

PKI & Secrets management

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Istio

Envoy

CI/CD pipelines

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