Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Remote & Kubernetes Expert

Prolific; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve our cloud platform, ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure for internal teams. You will drive automation, establish best practices, and partner with developers to accelerate product development.

Responsibilities include managing GKE clusters, advancing Terraform-based provisioning, and maintaining cloud compliance standards while contributing to multi-cloud efforts with AWS CDK and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling, such as Helm and kustomize.
• Strong experience with GitOps tooling and methodologies, such as ArgoCD.
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture.
• Strong knowledge in GKE and Kubernetes, including maintenance and optimisation of production clusters.
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience creating developer-focused documentation and self-service solutions that enable teams to easily self-serve.
• Strong customer empathy, with a focus on supporting the needs of internal teams (our Prolificos)

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise our Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform.
• Support our compliance with SOC2, ISO-27001, and Cyber Essentials standards in our cloud environments.
• Design and implement golden paths and automation strategies that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity.
• Create and maintain infrastructure solutions that allow development teams to build and deploy safely, easily, and efficiently.
• Serve as the technical point-of-contact for GCP and Kubernetes-related queries, providing expertise to other Prolificos.
• Be a part of our rolling on‑call rota

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

Google Cloud

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Documentation

Tools

Datadog

CDK (AWS)

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve our cloud platform, ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure for internal teams. You will drive automation, establish best practices, and partner with developers to accelerate product development.

Responsibilities include managing GKE clusters, advancing Terraform-based provisioning, and maintaining cloud compliance standards while contributing to multi-cloud efforts with AWS CDK and observability tooling.