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.