Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Prolific's Platform team as a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer and play a key role in maintaining and scaling our infrastructure. You will manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, implement automation strategies, and ensure compliance with security standards. This role requires extensive experience with Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and Python or TypeScript. You will design infrastructure solutions, serve as a technical expert, and create developer-focused documentation. Prolific offers a competitive salary, benefits, and remote work opportunities within a mission-driven culture. The company is at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to a unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research.

Requirements

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters
• Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling, such as Helm and kustomize
• Strong experience with GitOps tooling and methodologies, such as ArgoCD
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture
• Strong knowledge in GKE and Kubernetes, including maintenance and optimisation of production clusters
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript
• Experience creating developer-focused documentation and self-service solutions that enable teams to easily self-serve
• Strong customer empathy, with a focus on supporting the needs of internal teams (our Prolificos)

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise our Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform
• Support our compliance with SOC2, ISO-27001, and Cyber Essentials standards in our cloud environments
• Design and implement golden paths and automation strategies that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity
• Create and maintain infrastructure solutions that allow development teams to build and deploy safely, easily, and efficiently
• Serve as the technical point-of-contact for GCP and Kubernetes-related queries, providing expertise to other Prolificos

Preferred Qualifications

• We’re a multi-cloud team - experience with AWS and CDK is a big plus
• Experience implementing/maintaining cloud compliance standards (SOC2, ISO-27001)
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog
• Background in implementing security best practices in cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Remote working