Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Public Cloud

  • Jobtailor
  • Halifax, Yorkshire
  • 19/07/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Python

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Design, build and operate scalable, resilient GKE environments
  • Engineer multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails
  • Support shared and dedicated cluster patterns, including tenant onboarding
  • Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)
  • Build automation-first infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps
  • Simplify cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, add-ons)
  • Develop self-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience
  • Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to platform operations
  • Support incident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement
  • Diagnose issues across performance, scaling, storage and automation
  • Contribute to a 24x7 on-call rotation
  • Implement policy-as-code controls (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, RBAC, workload identity)
  • Support audit, compliance and risk mitigation activities
  • Ensure platforms are secure, supportable and aligned to control frameworks
  • Work with service mesh and ingress/egress patterns (e.g. Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh)
  • Support cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity)
  • Integrate shared platform services (cert-manager, observability, cost tooling)
Requirements
  • Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
  • Proven delivery of production Kubernetes platforms, ideally GKE
  • Experience with multi-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)
  • Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including: GKE IAM / Workload Identity Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress) Storage patterns
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
  • Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to own and deliver complex engineering outcomes