Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & GCP Expert

prolific; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Platform team. You will manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters in GKE, implement Terraform-based automation, and shape scalable cloud infrastructure for internal teams.

You will collaborate with developers to build secure, reliable deployments, contribute to SOC2/ISO controls, and promote best practices across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong Kubernetes tooling experience (Helm, kustomize) and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Proven GCP/GKE architecture experience and production cluster maintenance.
• Terraform for provisioning and automation; Python/TypeScript scripting.
• Documentation and self-service tooling for developer enablement.
• Customer empathy and support for internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters in GKE via Terraform.
• Support SOC2/ISO-27001 and Cyber Essentials cloud compliance.
• Design automated paths and self-service tooling for developers.
• Create infrastructure that enables safe, easy deployment at scale.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for GCP and Kubernetes queries.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Kubernetes

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

ArgoCD

Helm

kustomize

GCP

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

AWS CDK

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Platform team. You will manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters in GKE, implement Terraform-based automation, and shape scalable cloud infrastructure for internal teams.

You will collaborate with developers to build secure, reliable deployments, contribute to SOC2/ISO controls, and promote best practices across multi-cloud environments.