Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, GCP & Terraform

Prolific; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to shape and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure for developers. You’ll automate and simplify complex cloud environments, champion best practices, and serve as a trusted expert across Prolific.

You’ll work on multi-cloud setups (GKE, Terraform, AWS CDK), ensure SOC2/ISO-27001/Cyber Essentials compliance, and empower internal teams with self-serve infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling (Helm and kustomize).
• Strong experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD).
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture.
• Strong knowledge in GKE and Kubernetes production clusters.
• Strong experience with Terraform for provisioning and automation.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience creating developer-focused documentation and self-service solutions for teams.
• Strong customer empathy, supporting internal teams (our Prolificos).

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform.
• Support compliance with SOC2, ISO-27001, and Cyber Essentials in cloud environments.
• Design and implement golden paths and automation that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity.
• Create and maintain infrastructure solutions for safe, easy, efficient deployment by development teams.
• Serve as the technical point-of-contact for GCP and Kubernetes queries, guiding Prolificos.
• Be part of the rolling on-call rota.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

GCP

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Documentation

Self-service

Customer empathy

Tools

Datadog

AWS CDK

Job description

Prolific is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to shape and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure for developers. You’ll automate and simplify complex cloud environments, champion best practices, and serve as a trusted expert across Prolific.

You’ll work on multi-cloud setups (GKE, Terraform, AWS CDK), ensure SOC2/ISO-27001/Cyber Essentials compliance, and empower internal teams with self-serve infrastructure.