Cloud Platform Engineer Contract UK

About [Employer hidden]

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], a WPP company is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.

The Role

The Cloud Platform Engineers deliver infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team. We have a developer mindset and deliver our infrastructure through code, holding ourselves to the same quality and code standards as the rest of the team.

We need you to use your hands-on experience to drive the design, development and deployment of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s Logistics and Delivery products.

Your Responsibilities

• Work with our solution architects to identify the best technologies and process for our clients
• Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation
• Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
• Build in Observability

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

• building infrastructure and deploying code in one of the main Clouds (preferably GCP, Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6)
• Implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging and tracing tools (Grafana or similar)
• Communicating and explaining technical concepts at appropriate levels for your team and to clients
• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of: Infrastructure and Configuration as Code, Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD, Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design, Observability, Developer Experience, DevOps and SRE, InfoSec and SIEM

Nice to Have

• Experience in the Logistics industry
• Practical experience with BitBucket Pipelines, GitHUb Actions Workflows or Azure Devops Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts
• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations
• Experience deploying and operating observability stacks in production environments, including integration with Kubernetes workloads and cloud-native services.
• Hands-on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terratest
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
• Management of Automation Tooling – Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI
• Experience with automated testing tools - Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse
• Strong scripting skills - Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl

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