GCP Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will own and evolve a modern, cloud-native data platform in a UK insurance setting. You will lead infrastructure, automation, and platform capabilities, collaborating with Data Engineering and Platform teams to enable scalable data delivery. The role emphasizes self-service tooling, strong engineering best practices, and pragmatic decisions. You’ll shape platform standards, security governance, and observability to support data initiatives across the organization.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus
• hybrid work arrangement (1 day in office)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain GCP infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Own and evolve Terraform modules, deployment standards and platform patterns
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support data platform delivery
• Support and optimise core GCP services across the data estate
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging and observability capabilities
• Define and maintain secure IAM, access control and governance practices
• Develop reusable tools and automation to improve developer experience
• Support integration and migration activities between Azure and GCP where required
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards and runbooks
• Partner with Data Engineers and Platform teams to ensure alignment with engineering standards

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on experience operating and engineering platforms within GCP
• Excellent Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from the ground up
• Strong DevOps and platform engineering background
• Experience supporting production cloud environments
• Knowledge of networking, security and cloud infrastructure best practices
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
• Ability to work autonomously, make informed decisions and take ownership of technical delivery
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Pragmatic approach balancing technical excellence with business needs

• stakeholder management
• communication
• autonomy
• GCP
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code

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