About GBGGBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. About The Team GBG's Platform Engineering team is dedicated to providing all our Product Engineering teams the ability to deliver change faster, safer, and more efficiently. We believe self-service, developer-centric, and automated systems are the key to high performance and growth for GBG. You will be joining a team of experienced engineers from a wide range of disciplines from developers to cloud engineers. Our culture is key to our success, with a Platform-as-a-Product mindset, we work closely with all engineering, security, and product teams to understand their needs and remove cognitive load and toil from their lives. The role Enablers of Acceleration and Efficiency Are you passionate about enabling engineering teams to move at lightning speed with confidence and security? Do you have the Kubernetes expertise to turn complex infrastructure challenges into elegant, scalable solutions? At GBG, we're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to continuously improve and optimise our Internal Development Platform (IDP) empowering innovation and high performance across our business. GBG is a truly Global organisation, our platforms handle millions of transactions per hour. This role is your opportunity to use innovation and influence to shape the direction and adoption of our platform. What You Will Do Build Self-Service Capabilities That Accelerate Delivery and Automate Quality Develop and maintain a Global Internal Development Platform and supporting capabilities powered by AWS, EKS, Terraform, Python, and more Engineer scalable and secure Kubernetes-based solutions that remove dependencies (whether people, process, or technology) and enable squads to focus on building amazing products for our customers at pace. Be a Kubernetes Expert Lead the charge with deep expertise in Kubernetes, ensuring our EKS clusters are resilient, efficient, and tailored to the needs of our engineering teams Maintain, configure and architect the implementation of tools like Cilium for networking and Kyverno for policy management to build a platform that reduces cognitive load from our teams. Integrate Security into everything we deliver Champion Dev Sec Ops by embedding security into everything you design and build Work closely with our security teams to ensure compliance with the highest standards while enabling seamless developer experiences. Optimise Performance and Costs Live the principles of Fin Ops to deliver cost-efficient solutions without compromising performance Extend our monitoring systems to ensure operational excellence and real-time visibility Design tools that proactively find and resolve performance and resiliency issues. Enable Developer Autonomy Self-service is at the core of what we do, using tools such as Cross Plane to build capabilities and workflows that empower teams to deploy, scale, and manage their applications with minimal friction. Engage with our Product Engineering teams through training, demonstrations, and easy to consume documentation of our capabilities ensuring all teams maximise the platform's capabilities. Requirements What are we looking for Essential Skills & Experience: Proven expertise with Kubernetes (EKS experience preferred); Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) strongly desired Mastery of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and Python for scripting and automation with a background in software development and SDLC. Hands-on experience with Cilium for Kubernetes networking and Kyverno for policy enforcement Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly AWSSolid understanding of Dev Sec Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines Strong grasp of Fin Ops principles and cloud cost optimisation strategies. Desirable Skills: Knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry Experience managing complex multi-cluster Kubernetes environments Expertise in implementing service mesh technologies and advanced networking strategies A proven track record of building developer-friendly tools and platforms. Benefits To find out more As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process. To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we're a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we'll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here. Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Information Technology Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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