GCP Platform Engineer - £600+ Per Day

GCP Platform Engineer - £600+ Per Day

Our client is one of the world’s leading FinTechs.

With a global reach, they build award winning trading, payment and banking software.

They’re growing in London (with great WFH flexibility) and are looking for a strong GCP and Platform Engineer to join them to support and evolve their Cloud solution, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automated infrastructure and release engineering.

This is an initial 3 - 6 month contract, paying ~£600+ per day.

You’ll manage platforms to ensure reliability, scalability and security and you’ll be able to develop and implement systems enhancements, design new automated infrastructure and implement deployment pipelines in a sophisticated Cloud (GCP) environment as well as researching new tools.

You’ll be part of a central team working to deliver complex projects through agile methods and you’ll need a desire to continually improve your own skills, to look for efficiencies, optimisations, and ways to improve through automation.

Requirements:

- Experience in a similar DevOps, SRE or Cloud Engineering role

- Great knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform – Data Proc, Data Flow, Big Query etc

- Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet etc.

- Experience with Kubernetes containers (Docker useful too)

- Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins

- Good understanding of Linux infrastructure

- Experience with Big Data and Hadoop would be ideal too