Cloud Engineer DevOps / Platform Engineer
Focus:
The Cloud Engineer 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.
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.
Skills:
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.
Ways of working
- Experience working in distributed or offshore teams.
- Comfortable executing from defined architectural patterns and platform standards.
- Clear communicator, able to raise risks, capacity constraints, and operational concerns early.
