Platform Engineer

Korn Ferry are looking for a contractor/freelance consultant to join a project with a client.

Basic info:

• Hybrid position (2 days per week onsite in London)
• 6 month initial contract, expected 12m+ engagement
• Daily rates in GBP OUTSIDE OF IR35

Summary:

The role is a Lead Platform Engineer that will be leading a platform support function on GCP initially for an existing Data Science environment hosted in GCP. Role scope includes the following:

• Scope includes support and maintenance activities such as, but not limited to:​
• Performing updates to Terraform code as required by support activities​
• Security patching and vulnerability remediation​
• Problem investigation and resolution​
• Minor application updates such as updating dependency versions and bug fixing​
• Maintaining existing and adding new data connections​
• Rotating certificates and secrets where required​
• Deployment of service control and configuration policies where required​
• Maintaining Azure Devops deployment pipelines (for both platform changes and applications)​
• Interaction with customer teams such as the networking team where required to resolve issues​

Skills:

• Experience deploying, implementing and configuring services and resources in GCP:
• Secret Manager
• GCS
• BigQuery
• Cloud Run Services/Functions/Containers
• Compute Engine
• Redis Managed Service
• Earth Engine
• Vertex AI
• Cloud Networking & Shared VPC
• Experience supporting & maintaining production infrastructure
• Strong experience with typical production support activities (dependency updates, vulnerability patching, environment enhancements etc.)
• Fluent in Terraform for Infrastructure as code language
• Deep knowledge of Devops and CI/CD processes for infrastructure changes (promote to production)
• Azure Devops & Azure pipelines experience
• Expert knowledge of Version Control and typical branching strategies such as mainlining/gitflow etc.
• Someone who can lead a team and has done so before.
• Someone who can think on their feet, solve problems they haven't solved before and share new ideas, concepts etc.