Senior Platform Engineer (3799)

Gbgroup; Chester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their Internal Development Platform. This role involves leveraging your expertise in Kubernetes and Terraform to create scalable, secure solutions that empower engineering teams. You'll work in a dynamic environment, integrating security into every aspect of development while optimizing performance and costs. Join a team that values innovation and collaboration, and help shape the future of platform engineering in a global organization that supports thousands of transactions per hour. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise with Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Cilium and Kyverno for Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a Global Internal Development Platform powered by AWS and EKS.
• Engineer scalable Kubernetes-based solutions for efficient product development.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

DevSecOps

FinOps

Education

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Background in software development

Tools

AWS

EKS

Cilium

Kyverno

Prometheus

Grafana

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About GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most.

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers.

Why you should be@GBG

Reach
The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.

This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location. In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world.

Trust
When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.

This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.

About The Team
GBG's Platform Engineering team is dedicated to providing all our Product Engineering teams the ability to deliver change faster, safer and more efficiently. We believe self-service, developer-centric and automated systems are the key to high performance and growth for GBG. You will be joining a team of experienced engineers from a wide range of disciplines from developers to cloud engineers. Our culture is key to our success, with a Platform-as-a-Product mindset, we work closely with all engineering, security and product teams to understand their needs and remove cognitive load and toil from their lives.

The role
Enablers of Acceleration and Efficiency
Are you passionate about enabling engineering teams to move at lightning speed with confidence and security? Do you have the Kubernetes expertise to turn complex infrastructure challenges into elegant, scalable solutions? At GBG, we're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to continuously improve and optimise our Internal Development Platform (IDP) empowering innovation and high performance across our business. GBG is a truly Global organisation, our platforms handle millions of transactions per hour. This role is your opportunity to use innovation and influence to shape the direction and adoption of our platform.

With AWS, EKS, Terraform and CrossPlane at the heart of our stack, this role is your chance to define the future of platform engineering at a company that values simplicity, collaboration, and innovation with cutting-edge technology.

What You Will Do
Build Self-Service Capabilities That Accelerate Delivery and Automate Quality

• Develop and maintain a Global Internal Development Platform and supporting capabilities powered by AWS, EKS, Terraform, Python, and more.
• Engineer scalable and secure Kubernetes-based solutions that remove dependencies (whether people, process or technology) and enable squads to focus on building amazing products for our customers at pace.

Be a Kubernetes Expert

• Lead the charge with deep expertise in Kubernetes, ensuring our EKS clusters are resilient, efficient, and tailored to the needs of our engineering teams.
• Maintain, configure and architect the implementation of tools like Cilium for networking and Kyverno for policy management to build a platform that reduces cognitive load from our teams.

Integrate Security into everything we deliver

• Champion DevSecOps by embedding security into everything you design and build.
• Work closely with our security teams to ensure compliance with the highest standards while enabling seamless developer experiences.

Optimise Performance and Costs

• Live the principles of FinOps to deliver cost-efficient solutions without compromising performance.
• Extend our monitoring systems to ensure operational excellence and real-time visibility.
• Design tools that pro-actively find and resolve performance and resiliency issues.

Enable Developer Autonomy

• Self-service is at the core of what we do, using tools such as CrossPlane to build capabilities and workflows that empower teams to deploy, scale, and manage their applications with minimal friction.
• Engage with our Product Engineering teams through training, demonstrations and easy to consume documentation of our capabilities ensuring all teams maximise the platform's capabilities.

Requirements

What are we looking for

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven expertise with Kubernetes (EKS experience preferred); Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) strongly desired.
• Mastery of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and Python for scripting and automation with a background in software development and SDLC.
• Hands-on experience with Cilium for Kubernetes networking and Kyverno for policy enforcement.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong grasp of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimisation strategies.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Open Telemetry.
• Experience managing complex multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Expertise in implementing service mesh technologies and advanced networking strategies.
• A proven track record of building developer-friendly tools and platforms.

Benefits

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we're a great place to work, drop an email to and we'll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.

Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries
• Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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