We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in Leeds on a permanent basis. This hybrid role requires two days in the office and three days working remotely each week. The position sits within the central Cloud Platform team, supporting a portfolio of applications built on Google Cloud and open source technologies. You'll play a key part in designing and delivering GCP solutions while championing best practice across security, automation, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable, automated platform capabilities including IaC modules and standardised GitOps pipelines to accelerate developer delivery.
- Contribute to the architecture, scalability, and ongoing lifecycle management of a growing enterprise GCP estate, ensuring resilience and performance at scale.
- Build and evolve centralised observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Operations Suite) to maximise uptime and reduce mean time to resolution.
- Partner closely with security teams to embed shift left practices, integrating IAM, network controls, and governance into engineering workflows.
- Support and mentor engineers across the team, contributing to code reviews, clear documentation, and fostering a high trust, collaborative engineering environment.
Essential Qualifications
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and running enterprise scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
- Hands on experience with Terraform and automated pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or ArgoCD to deliver and manage infrastructure at scale.
- Strong background running production workloads in containerised, microservices based environments.
- Data driven approach to reliability, using modern monitoring and logging tooling to protect performance and availability.
- Strong communicator with experience working cross functionally and supporting or mentoring other engineers.
Desirable Qualifications
- Professional level certifications such as Cloud Architect, Cloud Security Engineer, or Cloud DevOps Engineer.
- Experience with complex GCP networking setups, e.g., Shared VPCs, Private Service Connect, Interconnects.
- Exposure to tracking, analysing, and optimising cloud spend across engineering teams.
- Familiarity with API management (e.g., Apigee) and core concepts like secure routing, traffic control, and OAuth/OpenID Connect.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus bonus
- 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 additional days
- Birthday off and an additional 3 days of annual leave after 5 years of service
- Well being and mental health benefits including the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover, and dental insurance
- Matched pension contribution up to 10%
- Car benefit scheme
- Access to an online learning platform for continuous development
Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates.