Kainos

Senior Platform Engineer (GCP)

Vaga remota de Senior Platform Engineer com fit claro de localização do candidato.

Publicada11 de jul. de 2026

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Sinal de senioridadeSenior

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Reino Unido

AWS Azure GCP Python

Resumo da vaga

Senior Platform Engineer (GCP)

Requisitos e responsabilidades

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Your key responsibilities will include:

Working as part of a team - You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and deploy software of the highest quality.• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit. You’ll ensure alignment to industry standards and best practices.• Putting people first - you’ll support your colleagues and facilitate an inclusive DevOps culture in all that you do.• Finding your voice – As a respected voice within your team and to our customers, you’ll drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable and performant.• Supporting services through Live Operation – Getting services into production is just the beginning with the fun truly starting when real users start interacting with the service you’ve built. You’ll make sure the service is available, secure and performant as you strive to continuously improve it.• Becoming a Role Model – You’ll embody the Kainos values and be the person people look up to. You’ll proactively coach and mentor more junior members of the team.• Pushing the boundaries – Through exposure to technology you may develop specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to other technical people, and sometimes to non-technical people.• Significant expertise in:o Use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and automation tools.o Fluency in least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.• Expertise in using multiple automation tools and at least one of: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy• Demonstrable experience in:o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform in production environments.o Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in. o Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation and advocating MVP. o Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software for releasing software to production. o Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.o Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (GCP).o Applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems. o Using modern version control systems including git.o Debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services and tools – you can find the needle in the haystack.

DESIRABLE

Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.• Obtained mid-level certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and with wider non-technical audiences.• Experience of cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies.• We are passionate about developing people – experience in managing, mentoring and coaching junior members of staff is important

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