Remote Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Prolific Academic Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Platform team. You will deepen Prolific’s cloud foundation, ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure and implementing automation to reduce complexity, while guiding internal teams on best practices.

The role focuses on Kubernetes in GKE, Terraform-driven provisioning, and close collaboration with Prolificos across projects. A modern cloud platform mindset and strong DevOps culture are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Customer empathy

Documentation for developers

Self-service solutions

Python/TypeScript programming

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

GKE

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Datadog

AWS CDK

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Platform team. You will deepen Prolific’s cloud foundation, ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure and implementing automation to reduce complexity, while guiding internal teams on best practices.

The role focuses on Kubernetes in GKE, Terraform-driven provisioning, and close collaboration with Prolificos across projects. A modern cloud platform mindset and strong DevOps culture are essential.