Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP Kubernetes DevSecOps)

The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners.

In this role, you will:

• Build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting the IDAM 2.0 programme.

• Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments.

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows.

• Manage cloud networking, connectivity and platform security.

• Implement platform observability including logging, monitoring, metrics and distributed tracing.

• Automate platform provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.

• Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and supporting services.

• Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.

• Configure service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication.

• Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components.

• Implement platform resilience, backup, disaster recovery and high availability capabilities.

• Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms.

• Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, governance and regulatory requirements.

• Optimise platform performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

• Develop operational tooling, scripts and self-service capabilities.

• Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services.

• Contribute to platform standards, operational documentation and runbooks.

• Support environment management across development, test, pilot and production environments.

• Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Key Skills & Experience

Essential Skills

• Cloud Platform Engineering (GCP)

• Kubernetes Administration

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)

• CI/CD Pipelines

• GitOps

• Linux Administration

• Networking and Load Balancing

• Service Mesh Technologies (Istio/Envoy)

• Container Platforms

• Secrets Management

• PKI and Certificate Management

• Workload Identity

• Observability (Logging, Monitoring and Tracing)

• Scripting and Automation

• DevSecOps

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Performance and Capacity Management

• Operational Support

• Global Deployment Strategies

• Positive can-do attitude adept at solutionising in large, complex organisations GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.