DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer – GCP / Kubernetes

Manchester (2 days per week onsite)

Long-Term Contract

Inside IR35

We’re supporting a large-scale enterprise platform team currently looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong experience across GCP, Kubernetes and modern cloud-native infrastructure environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform reliability, Kubernetes operations, cloud networking, CI/CD automation and production troubleshooting within a highly scalable environment.

You’ll be working closely with platform, networking, security and development teams to support and improve critical cloud infrastructure and container platforms.

Key Skills & Experience Required

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and GKE
• Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience
• Experience working with Istio / service mesh environments
• Strong understanding of networking, ingress/egress traffic flow, firewalls and load balancing
• Experience with TLS/mTLS, certificate management and secure application communication
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• CI/CD pipeline engineering experience using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Strong Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting skills
• Experience with monitoring, observability and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace or ELK
• Experience troubleshooting live production issues across cloud-native environments
• Strong understanding of ConfigMaps, Secrets, HPA, PDBs and Kubernetes workloads
• Experience working within DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with HashiCorp Vault
• Kafka or event-driven architecture exposure
• Banking or regulated enterprise environment experience
• DevSecOps / security tooling experience
• GitOps / ArgoCD exposure

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting and improving Kubernetes and GCP platform infrastructure
• Troubleshooting complex production and networking issues
• Managing and improving CI/CD and automation workflows
• Working closely with engineering teams to improve reliability and scalability
• Supporting platform upgrades, deployments and infrastructure changes
• Driving observability, monitoring and operational improvements
• Helping improve security, resilience and platform performance across cloud-native systems

If this sounds relevant, feel free to apply or message directly for more information.