Principal Engineer – Public Cloud, GCP
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full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Knutsford • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Be the recognised expert within GTIS Cloud Platforms and the firm for the GCP platform, with strong knowledge of at least one other public cloud hyperscaler.
- Set the strategic direction and provide visionary leadership for the GCP product roadmap.
- Drive a secure, resilient and scalable platform while providing a best-in-class engineering experience to our internal customers.
- Build strong partnerships to foster cross-organisation collaboration.
- Develop, customise, and integrate secure patterns to allow the successful design and build of scalable multi-region platform design to support critical services.
- Implement security and controls to meet necessary compliance and regulatory needs for protection of data and assets in the public cloud.
- Drive platform reliability through chaos engineering, SRE, Observability and incident response excellence.
- Build self-service platform capabilities reducing time-to-production for application teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience of working within financial services across several technology domains, with experience across GCP and at least one other hyperscaler.
- Extensive experience in designing and delivering resilient production GCP platforms in a regulated Financial Services environment.
- Expert track record of working collaboratively and developing strong, productive internal and external relationships across a matrixed global organisation.
- Application of modern development practices, inc. spec-driven AI coding, TDD, DORA metrics, pair programming and code reviews.
- Highly organised, diligent and skilled in managing complex projects (both strategic and tactical) using Agile and lean methodologies.
- Able to explain complex GCP architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and produce clear technical documentation (ADRs, runbooks).
- A world class technical communicator, able to command respect from peers and junior engineers alike.
- Deep expertise and proven acumen in diagnosing distributed systems issues - network analysis, trace correlation, GCP-native debugging.
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GCPpublic cloud hyperscalerchaos engineeringSREobservabilityincident responsespec-driven AI codingTDDDORA metricspair programming
Soft Skills
visionary leadershipcross-organisation collaborationstrong relationshipshighly organiseddiligentproject managementtechnical communicationability to explain complex conceptsproducing clear technical documentationcommand respect