My client is seeking to recruit a Platform Engineer on an initial 4 month contract for a global client based in London. It is hybrid and will require 2-3x days onsite per week.

You will maintain the platform, developing further automation for ops of platform and end user self service capability, building Go based SW packages to support, being part of Scrum SW delivery team.

Responsibilities:

* Maintain in house private build environment for build and deploy SW for the Business Function, delivering self service capability.

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes using GCP-native tools and technologies.
  * Develop capabilities which allow Platform Engineering teams to operate with a DevOps ethos.
  * Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, reliability, and observability on GCP.
  * Implement and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets to ensure a balance between reliability and feature development.
  * Develop and maintain a comprehensive monitoring and alerting platform to detect and resolve issues proactively.
  * Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and implement necessary controls.
  
  Skills Required:
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  Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field
  * 5 plus years of cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
  * 5 plus years of experience working with CI tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI)
  * 5 plus years of experience with Python, Ruby, JavaScript/Typescript, go
  * 3 plus years or experience with Container Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker)