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Lead, Platform Engineer

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28 → 2026-09-29

Core

Lead the Google Cloud platform and infrastructure team, designing scalable systems and managing one infrastructure engineer to support product teams.

Role type

Senior IC platform engineer with line management responsibilities

Builds

Scalable, secure infrastructure on GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling for product engineers

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Python/Go/Bash scripting, observability, incident response, team leadership

Preferred skills

TypeScript/JavaScript, GitOps (ArgoCD), regulated industry experience (iGaming/fintech), acquisition consolidation experience

Technologies

GCP, GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Terraform, Traefik, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable GCP infrastructure defined in Terraform; manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions; lead root cause analysis for incidents; line manage and develop an infrastructure engineer; define platform standards and roadmap; consolidate acquired sites onto a common build path.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with line management

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