Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer • Package to =C£80k (to £70k basic + £10k on-call allowance*) • Benefits including matched pension & optional private healthcare • Role based from Stockport offices on Wednesdays & Thursdays Company This opportunity is with the UK's leading flat & house sharing marketplace, connecting people looking for rooms, flatmates and lodgers through its online platform. The company helps millions of users find compatible accommodation and housemates by providing a trusted, user-focused service with advanced search, secure messaging and moderation tools. As a privately owned, technology-driven business, they are focused on creating safer, happier shared living experiences while continually improving its digital platform and customer experience. ? Role It’s an exciting time to be joining their Platform team as they’ve completed their migration from their data centre to Google Cloud Platform and are now embracing cloud-native infrastructure, leveraging GCP’s services to build a more scalable, resilient, and efficient platform. They’re looking for a passionate Platform Engineer to help them optimise their system, improve security, and develop solutions that utilise many of the benefits cloud engineering offers. Responsibilities ?Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of their platform and infrastructure. Design and maintain scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and platform tooling on GCP. Continue to automate and improve their infrastructure and operational workflows. Collaborate with their core development team to design and deliver platform solutions that support product development. Build and maintain self-service platform capabilities that enable teams to deploy and operate their services. Help maintain high engineering standards through best practices, tooling, and documentation. *Participate in a paid on-call rotation to support the reliability and availability of their platform (the rota is 1 week on 1 week off. It's possible to swap days or just ask another other person to cover it. The call outs are random. Can be as little as 0 a month to a few a month). Relevant experience in a majority of these concepts Containerisation – (Docker & Kubernetes). In-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems, focusing on Debian and RHEL/CentOS. Cloud service providers such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS (knowledge of other platforms such as Azure would also be beneficial). Infrastructure as Code best practises (Terraform). Configuration Management – (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Packer). Knowledge of CI/CD processes – (Jenkins, GitHub Actions and FluxCD in particular). Scripting/programming languages e.g. Python, Bash, Perl or Golang). Databases (primarily MySQL). Some experience of CDNs would also be beneficial (particularly Fastly). Physical infrastructure exposure, e.g. physical & wireless networking, security Email infrastructure and SMTP services (e.g. Postfix), including mail delivery, routing, and troubleshooting. What they offer ?Hybrid working - with core office days (Wed & Thurs) Cycle to Work scheme Home & Tech Scheme Season travel loans Matched pension contributions Sports/health & financial wellbeing contributions Optional Private Healthcare and Cash Plan with EAP Rental deposit loan scheme Other Stuff NB: for non-UK Citizens; we cannot accept applications from anyone requiring sponsorship (now or in the future) for UK permanent employment status. If you are utilising a work visa this must allow you to work in the UK unrestricted for at least the next 5 years. Profile 29 recruitment keywords: Google Cloud Platform GCP Docker Kubernetes containers Linux Terraform Pipelines argoCD FluxCD Github workflows Jenkins Monitoring logging graphana Stockport Manchester Cheshire Lancashire hybrid remote platform engineer