Senior Platform Engineer, GCP

Kainos

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for leading design of GCP digital service platform components. Collaborating with various teams to ensure scalability, security, and reliability of services.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeBirmingham • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGroovyPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Working as part of a team - You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and deploy software of the highest quality
Using technology for positive impact – You’ll ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit
Putting people first - you’ll support your colleagues and facilitate an inclusive DevOps culture in all that you do
Finding your voice – As a respected voice within your team and to our customers, you’ll drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable and performant
Supporting services through Live Operation – Getting services into production is just the beginning with the fun truly starting when real users start interacting with the service you’ve built
Becoming a Role Model – You’ll embody the Kainos values and be the person people look up to
Pushing the boundaries – Through exposure to technology you may develop specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant expertise in using multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and automation tools
Fluency in least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy
Expertise in using multiple automation tools and at least one of: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy
Demonstrable experience in designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform in production environments
Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in
Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation and advocating MVP
Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production
Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance
Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (GCP)
Applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems
Using modern version control systems including git
Debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services and tools – you can find the needle in the haystack
Active SC Clearance or Eligible required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

PowershellBashPythonRubyGoGroovyconfiguration managementinfrastructure provisioningautomation toolsContinuous Delivery

Soft Skills

team collaborationcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvinginclusivitytechnical decision-makinguser advocacyrole modelingscalability focuscustomer engagement

Certifications

Active SC ClearanceEligible for SC Clearance