Location: Fully Remote
Salary: £60,000 - £72,000 plus Generous Bonus Scheme
About the role
Our client, a leading insurance company, are looking for a Remote-Working, Experienced Platform Engineer to support and enhance their modern cloud engineering environment. You'll help drive a high-impact cloud platform powering multiple engineering teams at scale. The focus is on building and running shared platforms that enable multiple engineering teams to move faster, safer and with confidence. You'll set standards, shape design decisions, and act as a trusted technical authority without formal line management.
Key responsibilities
Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) on Google Cloud Platform
Operate and evolve Kubernetes (GKE) platforms used by multiple teams
Deploy and manage workloads using Helm with strong isolation and configuration practices
Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitOps
Embed observability across the platform (monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing)
Define and enforce platform standards, patterns and best practices
Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, diagrams and runbooks
Lead and contribute to technical design and architecture discussions
Mentor and support mid-level and junior engineers
Drive automation, stability and long-term platform reliability
Skills and experience
Strong experience as a Senior Platform Engineer / Platform Engineer
Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, ideally GKE
Proven experience with GCP in production environments
Deep knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles
Experience deploying services with Helm
CI/CD expertise, particularly Azure DevOps
Git-based workflows, GitOps and tools such as Argo CD
Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio)
Exposure to observability / APM tooling
Confident technical leader with experience setting standards and mentoring others
Comfortable working in shared platform environments
Reasonable Adjustments:
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
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