GCP DevOps Engineer
Summary
A platform/DevOps engineer role building and running a Kubernetes-based delivery platform on Google Cloud (GKE) in Manchester. Day to day: infrastructure automation with Terraform, CI/CD with Harness and Jenkins, IDP work with Backstage, Istio networking, Dynatrace observability/SRE, and Vault/IAM security controls.
Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering; GKE preferred. OpenShift experience is required.
Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; strong Terraform and reusable infrastructure automation.
Delivery engineering
Harness CI/CD and Jenkins; pipeline design, automation, release controls and deployment patterns.
Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including self-service and golden paths.
Observability & SRE
Dynatrace; metrics, telemetry, logs, traces, alerting, SLI/SLO practices and runbook automation.
Security & controls
HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM/least privilege, platform controls and secure configuration.
Networking
Istio Service Mesh, ingress/egress, service connectivity, traffic management and network security concepts.
GitHub / Git, automation-first mindset, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.