Senior GCP & Kubernetes DevOps Engineer

Our client is a leading financial technology organization driving large-scale digital transformation within Global Markets Technology.

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, ideally GKE, including deployment, ingress, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience migrating or operating microservices platforms at scale.
• Strong expertise supporting Java and Python microservices within Kubernetes environments.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring, observability, and tracing tools, preferably Grafana stacks (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised applications.
• Skills in Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and automated environment provisioning.
• Solid production mindset including reliability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively with local and global teams with excellent written and spoken English.
• Delivery-driven and pragmatic approach balancing speed, control, and risk management.
• Open-minded, eager to learn, and capable of guiding colleagues.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GCP services supporting GKE (IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Artifact Registry).
• Helm chart development and standardisation across teams.
• Service mesh experience (Istio) and ingress patterns.
• Knowledge of security tooling (container scanning, policy-as-code, workload identity).
• Previous experience with cloud migration or platform engineering projects.
• Familiarity with Javascript/Vue.

• Engineer and operate the target platform on GCP/GKE to support the migration of 100+ microservices.
• Partner with application delivery teams to onboard services onto Kubernetes, including deployment patterns, configuration, and operational readiness.
• Provide hands-on support deploying Java and Python microservices into Kubernetes using manifests/Helm, config, secrets, scaling, and health checks.
• Build and standardise CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads, ensuring security and reliability.
• Implement observability solutions including metrics, logs, distributed tracing (preferably Grafana stack), dashboards, alerting, and SLO reporting.
• Drive platform reliability and support including incident management, root cause analysis, and preventative enhancements.
• Identify and address technical debt; propose platform improvements to reduce operational toil and enhance developer experience.
• Ensure solutions comply with security controls, operational guidelines, and technology standards.
• Collaborate effectively within a global, dispersed team, sharing knowledge and best practices.

Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.