Korn Ferry are looking for a contractor/freelance consultant to join a project with a client.
Basic info:
* Hybrid position (2 days per week onsite in London)
* 6 month initial contract, expected 12m+ engagement
* Daily rates in GBP OUTSIDE OF IR35
Summary:
The role is a Lead Platform Engineer that will be leading a platform support function on GCP initially for an existing Data Science environment hosted in GCP. Role scope includes the following:
* Scope includes support and maintenance activities such as, but not limited to:
* Performing updates to Terraform code as required by support activities
* Security patching and vulnerability remediation
* Problem investigation and resolution
* Minor application updates such as updating dependency versions and bug fixing
* Maintaining existing and adding new data connections
* Rotating certificates and secrets where required
* Deployment of service control and configuration policies where required
* Maintaining Azure Devops deployment pipelines (for both platform changes and applications)
* Interaction with customer teams such as the networking team where required to resolve issues
Skills:
* Experience deploying, implementing and configuring services and resources in GCP:
* Secret Manager
* GCS
* BigQuery
* Cloud Run Services/Functions/Containers
* Compute Engine
* Redis Managed Service
* Earth Engine
* Vertex AI
* Cloud Networking & Shared VPC
* Experience supporting & maintaining production infrastructure
* Strong experience with typical production support activities (dependency updates, vulnerability patching, environment enhancements etc.)
* Fluent in Terraform for Infrastructure as code language
* Deep knowledge of Devops and CI/CD processes for infrastructure changes (promote to production)
* Azure Devops & Azure pipelines experience
* Expert knowledge of Version Control and typical branching strategies such as mainlining/gitflow etc.
* Someone who can lead a team and has done so before.
* Someone who can think on their feet, solve problems they haven't solved before and share new ideas, concepts etc.