DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer – GCP / Kubernetes Manchester (2 days per week onsite) Long\-Term Contract Inside IR35 We’re supporting a large\-scale enterprise platform team currently looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong experience across GCP, Kubernetes and modern cloud\-native infrastructure environments. This is a hands\-on engineering role focused on platform reliability, Kubernetes operations, cloud networking, CI/CD automation and production troubleshooting within a highly scalable environment. You’ll be working closely with platform, networking, security and development teams to support and improve critical cloud infrastructure and container platforms. Key Skills \& Experience Required * Strong hands\-on experience with GCP and GKE * Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience * Experience working with Istio / service mesh environments * Strong understanding of networking, ingress/egress traffic flow, firewalls and load balancing * Experience with TLS/mTLS, certificate management and secure application communication * Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience * CI/CD pipeline engineering experience using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps * Strong Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting skills * Experience with monitoring, observability and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace or ELK * Experience troubleshooting live production issues across cloud\-native environments * Strong understanding of ConfigMaps, Secrets, HPA, PDBs and Kubernetes workloads * Experience working within DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering teams Nice to Have * Experience with HashiCorp Vault * Kafka or event\-driven architecture exposure * Banking or regulated enterprise environment experience * DevSecOps / security tooling experience * GitOps / ArgoCD exposure What You’ll Be Doing * Supporting and improving Kubernetes and GCP platform infrastructure * Troubleshooting complex production and networking issues * Managing and improving CI/CD and automation workflows * Working closely with engineering teams to improve reliability and scalability * Supporting platform upgrades, deployments and infrastructure changes * Driving observability, monitoring and operational improvements * Helping improve security, resilience and platform performance across cloud\-native systems If this sounds relevant, feel free to apply or message directly for more information.