Lead Platform Engineer | £100,000 £120,000 | Hybrid (London)
The Mission
* Cut dev-to-production lead time with seamless CI/CD and preview environments
* Design "Golden Path" workflows so engineers ship features, not config files
* Auto-scale GCP infrastructure to handle Black Friday and January travel peaks
* Champion SRE practices define SLOs and error budgets for the booking flow
* Architect data-sync pipelines with GDPR-compliant PII masking for dev environments
* Operationalise Vertex AI and Redis to power personalised search and dynamic pricing
The Tech Stack
We'll consider strong candidates from AWS or Azure backgrounds GCP is where you'll operate. The must-haves are:
Kubernetes (GKE) Docker Terraform PHP (Symfony/Drupal) JavaScript Go Cloud SQL/MySQL Redis Nginx Cloud Load Balancing Varnish CDNs Cloudflare
Bonus: GCP, BigQuery, Apigee, Vertex AI
About You
1. Proven leadership of Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams in high-volume e-commerce, travel, or fintech
2. Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration experience with PHP/React workloads
3. Strong cloud fundamentals (IAM, VPCs, networking) transferable from AWS or Azure to GCP
4. Scripting fluency in Bash, Python, or Go
5. Experience managing high-traffic SQL databases and Redis ...