Senior GCP Platform Engineer

Liberty Blume; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + Bonus

25 days annual leave (+5)

Birthday day off after 5 years

Wellbeing and mental health benefits

Matched pension up to 10%

Car benefit scheme

Online learning platform

Innovative, fast-paced team

Job summary

Liberty Global is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Leeds to join our hybrid team. You will design and deliver scalable GCP-based platforms, drive automation, and champion security and observability across engineering workflows.

The role blends hands-on engineering with mentoring, offering a chance to shape an enterprise cloud platform while collaborating with security and development teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, deploying and running enterprise-scale GCP solutions.
• Solid background running production workloads in containerised microservices environments.
• Data-driven approach to reliability using modern monitoring and logging tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable IaC modules and GitOps pipelines to accelerate delivery.
• Contribute to architecture, scalability and lifecycle management of an enterprise GCP estate for resilience and performance.
• Build and evolve centralised observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Operations) to maximise uptime.

Skills

GCP architecture design

Containerised microservices

Observability & monitoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Security integration in pipelines

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

ArgoCD

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in Leeds on a permanent basis. This is a hybrid role, with two days in the office and three days working remotely each week.

This role sits within the central Cloud Platform team, supporting a portfolio of applications built on Google Cloud and open‑source technologies. You’ll play a key part in designing and delivering GCP solutions, while championing best practice across security, automation, and observability. It’s a hands‑on role where you can make an immediate impact from day one. We’re currently building a strong talent pipeline for this position, so while this isn’t an immediate vacancy, we’re keen to connect with senior engineers for future opportunities as the team continues to grow.

What will you be doing?

• Design and maintain scalable, automated platform capabilities including IaC modules and standardised GitOps pipelines to significantly accelerate developer delivery.
• Contribute to the architecture, scalability, and ongoing lifecycle management of a growing enterprise GCP estate, ensuring resilience and performance at scale.
• Build and evolve centralised observability solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Operations Suite) to maximise uptime and reduce mean time to resolution.
• Partner closely with security teams to embed “shift‑left” practices, integrating IAM, network controls, and governance seamlessly into engineering workflows.
• Support and mentor engineers across the team, contributing to code reviews, clear documentation, and fostering a high‑trust, collaborative engineering environment.

Essential

We tend to look for people with:

• Proven hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and running enterprise‑scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience using Terraform and automated pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, ArgoCD) to deliver and manage infrastructure at scale.
• Solid background running production workloads in containerised, microservices‑based environments.
• Data‑driven approach to reliability, using modern monitoring and logging tooling to protect performance and availability.
• Strong communicator with experience working cross‑functionally and supporting or mentoring other engineers.

Desirable

• Professional‑level certifications such as Cloud Architect, Cloud Security Engineer, or Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with complex GCP networking setups (e.g. Shared VPCs, Private Service Connect, Interconnects).
• Exposure to tracking, analysing, and optimising cloud spend across engineering teams.
• Familiarity with API management (e.g. Apigee) and core concepts like secure routing, traffic control, and OAuth/OpenID Connect.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more.
• Enjoy your birthday off, plus receive an additional 3 days of annual leave once you reach 5 years of service.
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our car benefit scheme
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• The chance to join an innovative, fast‑paced and passionate team

Who We Are

Liberty Global is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech‑enabled back‑office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you’re curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale‑up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background.