Senior Platform Engineer (Fully Remote) – GKE, GCP, Terraform
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