Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Remote Kubernetes & GKE

prolific; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and optimise our cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalable, reliable and secure deployments for internal teams. You will drive automation, set best practices, and act as a technical expert across the organisation.

You will work with a multi-cloud mindset, primarily focusing on GCP and Kubernetes, while supporting SOC2/ISO-27001 compliance and on-call rotations.

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

GCP

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Documentation

Self-service

Tools

Kubernetes tooling

GitOps tooling

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and optimise our cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalable, reliable and secure deployments for internal teams. You will drive automation, set best practices, and act as a technical expert across the organisation.

You will work with a multi-cloud mindset, primarily focusing on GCP and Kubernetes, while supporting SOC2/ISO-27001 compliance and on-call rotations.