Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary
A senior DevOps engineer designs, builds and operates a Kubernetes-based cloud platform on Google Cloud, using Terraform, Harness/Jenkins CI/CD, Dynatrace observability, HashiCorp Vault and Istio service mesh. Day to day involves pipeline and platform automation, SRE/observability practices, security controls and production support, based in Manchester.
Must have: 7+ Years of experience, Google Cloud, Terraform, Dynatrace/Telemetry, Kubernetes
Essential skills and experience
Container platforms
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.