Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
The Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer is a hands-on platform capability specialist responsible for implementing, operating, and improving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling within an established platform architecture.
Key Responsibilities
• Build, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in line with agreed patterns and modules.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines for application and platform services, following established standards.
• Operate and support production and non-production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using agreed observability tooling.
• Support containerised workloads and runtime platforms (e.g. Cloud Run, Kubernetes) within defined guardrails.
• Manage service configuration, secrets, and environment variables using approved tooling and processes.
• Support incident investigation and resolution, providing diagnostics and remediation under onshore leadership.
• Implement platform security controls, patching, and hardening based on defined security standards.
• Contribute to platform documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call or operational support rotations where required, following defined escalation paths.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams to deliver platform and reliability improvements.
Mandatory Skillsets
The candidate must have:
Cloud & infrastructure
5–8+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering roles. Strong hands-on experience with GCP or another hyperscaler. Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Experience managing networking, IAM, and service accounts in cloud environments.
CI/CD & automation
Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins). Experience automating operational tasks using scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python). Familiarity with release management and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
Runtime & observability
Experience running containerised platforms (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes). Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools. Ability to diagnose issues using metrics, logs, and traces.
Security & reliability
Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, least privilege). Experience implementing reliability and availability best practices. Familiarity with compliance-driven environments and change control processes.