Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Platform Engineering (GKE)

• Design, build and operate scalable, resilient GKE environments
• Engineer multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails
• Support shared and dedicated cluster patterns, including tenant onboarding
• Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)
  
  Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
• Proven delivery of production Kubernetes platforms, ideally GKE
• Experience with multi-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)
• Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:
+ GKE + IAM / Workload Identity + Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress) + Storage patterns
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to own and deliver complex engineering outcomes
Desirable experience
• Advanced GKE operational expertise (node pools, upgrades, scaling, security boundaries)
• Experience operating platforms at scale (multi-cluster, multi-tenant)
• Service mesh experience (e.g. Istio, mTLS, traffic management)
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Config Sync)
• Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
• Strong focus on SRE and platform reliability improvements
Nice to have
• Experience with Backstage or self-service platform tooling
• Familiarity with Anthos Config Management / Config Sync
• Exposure to tools such as CoreDNS, cert-manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox
• Understanding of platform scaling challenges (ephemeral storage, workload density, resilience)
• Experience working with cloud providers on platform architecture
  
  Influence cloud platform strategy across the Group
• Solve real-world challenges in scale, reliability and security
• Build automation that improves developer experience and reduces toil
• Join a team that values engineering excellence, ownership and innovation
What we offer
• Performance bonus
• Generous pension
• Flexible benefits package
• Private healthcare
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Share schemes
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