Principal Platform Engineer - DevOps

December 9

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Qodea

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Software as a Service • Google Apps • Google Search • Google Maps Consulting Services • Google Cloud Platform

201 - 500 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Description

• Qodea is the largest Google Cloud-only digital consultancy in Europe. • We’re looking for bright, passionate people to join us at the vanguard, delivering the most ambitious Google Cloud projects. • As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will be at the forefront of cloud technology using your skills for a variety of undertakings. • Using your in-depth technical knowledge and experience, you will become a highly trusted advisor to our customers and drive internal standards. • You will ensure that the projects and services being proposed are appropriate and aligned to customers’ requirements. • The technical aspects of your role will be a balance of carrying out ‘hands-on’ billable delivery work and thought leadership, such as writing blogs, engaging with the Google technical community, and driving the adoption of new technology. • You will keep up to date with emerging technologies, and regularly complete professional certifications. • As part of a growing organisation you will get opportunities to broaden your technical area of expertise through exposure to a wide array of customers.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) • Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, with a deep understanding of container orchestration and management. • Knowledge of most of the following: • Proficient in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, and comfortable with configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt. • Expert-level understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) with experience in some systems administration and troubleshooting • Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar pipelines, with a focus on automation and reliability • Solid knowledge of modern internet protocols and patterns, including but not limited to GRPC, GraphQL, REST APIs, and related tools. • Proven experience in a cloud focussed delivery role (DevOps or Software Development) • You’re proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers • Previous experience in a consultancy or professional services role • Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems • Understanding of application development, delivery and infrastructure automation • Comfortable writing production-quality software in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, C++) • Experience working in multi-cloud or with hybrid-cloud architectures • Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Logging and Monitoring) with an understanding of reliability engineering • Familiarity with cloud security frameworks (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, IAM best practices, container security tools) • Professional certifications in GCP/AWS • Certified Kubernetes Administrator or other Kubernetes-related certifications

Benefits

• Health Care package • NN Assurance package (life and health) • 28 days PTO as standard, plus a flexible annual leave policy and your birthday off • 10 learning days per year • Length of service awards • Work from anywhere for up to 90 days per year • Sabbatical leave for employees over 5 years service • Flexible working culture • Meal tickets • Transportation costs • Bookster Platform • Company events - opportunities to meet colleagues you don’t see every day • Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications • Opportunities to develop within a fast growing-tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals