Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure/GCP)

Summary: The Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure/GCP) is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities. This role involves balancing technical work with mentoring others to enhance reliability, security, and simplicity in cloud operations. The engineer will work with Infrastructure-as-Code and modern CI/CD tools while collaborating with architecture and feature teams to evolve cloud products. A secure-by-design mindset and a focus on performance and observability are essential for success in this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern CI/CD tools.
• Partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve the cloud roadmap and platform products.
• Embed a secure-by-design mindset, implementing controls from design to runtime.
• Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs, enhancing observability, automation, and performance.
• Enable API-first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale, fault-tolerant systems with performance and reliability in mind.
• Strong skills in Terraform (IaC) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, or Spinnaker).
• Expertise in Kubernetes and service-mesh patterns (eg, Istio).
• Knowledge of API design & security (REST/OpenAPI, authN/Z, mTLS, certificates).
• Scripting experience in Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Depth in Azure or GCP with readiness to cross-train.
• Relevant Azure or GCP certifications.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Manchester

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Purpose:
Be a hands-on engineering leader who designs, builds, and operates secure, automated cloud platform capabilities. You'll balance deep technical work with coaching others to raise the bar on reliability, security, and simplicity.

What You'll Do:

Design, build, and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern CI/CD tools.

Partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve our cloud roadmap and platform products.

Embed a secure-by-design mindset, implementing controls from design to runtime.

Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs, enhancing observability, automation, and performance.

Enable API-first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers.

Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards.

Core Skills (Cloud-Agnostic):

Proven experience delivering large-scale, fault-tolerant systems with performance and reliability in mind.

Strong skills in Terraform (IaC) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, or Spinnaker).

Expertise in Kubernetes and service-mesh patterns (eg, Istio).

Knowledge of API design & security (REST/OpenAPI, authN/Z, mTLS, certificates).

Scripting experience in Bash, PowerShell, or Python.

Depth in One Cloud (and Readiness to Cross-Train):

Azure (any subset):

ARM/Bicep/Template Spec

AKS

Application Gateway

API Management (policies/C# basics)

Azure Storage

GCP (any subset):

GKE

Cloud Load Balancing

Cloud Armor

Istio

Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver

Jenkins

Apigee

Desirable Skills:

Harness (CI/CD)

HashiCorp Vault

Dynatrace

Docker/Buildah

NodeJS for API tooling

Relevant Azure or GCP certifications