Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Core
Design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical, sovereign cloud infrastructure for sensitive national security operations using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes in air-gapped environments.
Role type
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (High-Assurance/Defence)
Builds
Automated, air-gapped GCP environments and Sovereign Landing Zones supporting tactical edge analytics and disconnected containerised workloads.
Domain
UK Defence / National Security / Sovereign Cloud
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes (GKE/GKE Enterprise), Terraform, Ansible, Zero-Trust architecture, Service Mesh (Istio), Policy-as-Code (OPA/Gatekeeper), Container security, Air-gapped deployment management, Network security (VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect)
Preferred skills
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDC air-gapped) hardware, Event streaming (Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub), Low-bandwidth connectivity management
Technologies
GCP, GKE, Terraform, Ansible, Istio, Vault, OPA, Gatekeeper, Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub
Responsibilities
Design and maintain enterprise-grade GCP environments and Sovereign Landing Zones; Manage and secure production GKE clusters in air-gapped or low-bandwidth environments; Implement Zero-Trust network topologies and IAM policies aligned with NCSC and MoD frameworks; Operate fully disconnected sovereign cloud nodes and handle offline artifact management; Build secure CI/CD pipelines with container scanning and automated policy enforcement; Configure private interconnects and network firewalls to guarantee data sovereignty.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC