Lead Platform Engineer in Bradford

We’re looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join our team in Bradford or Leeds on a permanent basis. This hybrid role offers flexibility, with two days in the office and three days working remotely.

As a cloud-native organisation, our hyperscaler platform is the foundation of every product we create and every customer experience we deliver. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our GCP estate - making the platform a true enabler for rapid product innovation.

You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary Platform Engineering team spanning CI/CD, networking, security, AIOps, and observability. Your mission: build a robust, automated, self-service platform that empowers engineering squads and drives the company’s technology-led transformation.

• Lead and grow a hybrid team of around 10 Platform Engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, automation, and high performance.
• Take full ownership of the GCP platform, including infrastructure design, lifecycle management, cost optimisation, and operational excellence.
• Drive security and compliance across the platform, collaborating with the central Security team to ensure all assets align with company policies, regulatory standards, and industry best practices.
• Define and uphold quality standards by embedding QA, test automation, and validation into platform services to guarantee accuracy, stability, and data integrity.
• Maintain comprehensive, up-to-date documentation covering infrastructure, standards, runbooks, and operational processes.
• Actively contribute to agile delivery, working within a Scrum team to design, build, and iterate on platform products and services.
• Establish and track key platform metrics such as availability, deployment frequency, MTTR, security posture, and cost efficiency.
• Champion platform engineering best practices across the organisation, including GitOps, Infrastructure as Code patterns, environment standardisation, and golden paths.

We tend to look for people with:

• Essential
• Proven experience leading high-performing Platform or DevOps teams, including managing offshore or partner resources.
• Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Demonstrated success in commercial DevOps or Platform Engineering roles, building automated and reliable infrastructure at scale.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD design and ownership, ideally with tools such as GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar.
• Solid understanding of networking, security fundamentals, IAM, VPC design, and cloud governance.
• Skilled in debugging using logs, traces, and observability tooling (e.g., Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, OpenTelemetry).
• Demonstrated experience with microservices and API-driven architectures, ideally within data-centric or event-driven environments.
• Desirable
• GCP Professional-level certification.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, product-led environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more.
• Enjoy your birthday off, plus receive an additional 3 days of annual leave once you reach 5 years of service.
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%.
• Access to our car benefit scheme.
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us.
• The chance to join an innovative, fast-paced and passionate team.

Who we are:

Liberty Blume, a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you’re curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background.

We’re building Tomorrow’s Connections Today, bringing people together through the power of our technology.

Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content and technology ventures.

With our investments in fibre-based and 5G networks we play a vital role in society, currently providing over 85 million fixed and mobile connections and rolling out the next generation of products and services, while readying our networks for 10 Gbps and beyond.

We’re creating national champions, combining the best broadband and mobile networks under brands such as Virgin Media-02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland and UPC in Slovakia.

Liberty Global Ventures, our global investment arm, has a portfolio of more than 75 companies and funds across content, technology and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in ITV, Univision, Plume, Lionsgate and the Formula E racing series.

Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.

And we’re prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment. We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners and the planet.