Senior Platform Engineer 3799
Senior Platform Engineer 3799
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About GBG
GBG 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 20000 of the worlds bestknown organisations to reach and trust their customers.
Why you should
Reach
The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.
This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers we exist to help every business in the world reach every customer in the world.
Trust
When a digital business grows most customers are genuine. However many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent because we understand identity better than anyone else.
This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity Fraud trust is key so the more you can know and the earlier you know it the better decisions you can make.
About the team
GBGs Platform Engineering team is dedicated to providing all our Product Engineering teams the ability to deliver change faster safer and more efficiently. We believe selfservice developercentric 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 PlatformasaProduct 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 were 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.
With AWS EKS Terraform and CrossPlane at the heart of our stack this role is your chance to define the future of platform engineering at a company that values simplicity collaboration and innovation with cuttingedge technology.
What you will do
Build SelfService 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 Kubernetesbased 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 DevSecOps 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 FinOps to deliver costefficient solutions without compromising performance.
- Extend our monitoring systems to ensure operational excellence and realtime visibility.
- Design tools that proactively find and resolve performance and resiliency issues.
Enable Developer Autonomy
- Selfservice is at the core of what we do using tools such as CrossPlane 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 platforms 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.
- Handson experience with Cilium for Kubernetes networking and Kyverno for policy enforcement.
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms particularly AWS.
- Solid understanding of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong grasp of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimisation strategies.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus Grafana and Open Telemetry.
- Experience managing complex multicluster Kubernetes environments.
- Expertise in implementing service mesh technologies and advanced networking strategies.
- A proven track record of building developerfriendly 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 were a great place to work drop an email to and well be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.
Why not apply and make work for you
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
