Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Professional Services team. This is a senior, client-facing role where you will lead the design and delivery of cloud platforms for enterprise clients, set the technical direction on engagements, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires technical depth, judgment, communication, and consulting craft to implement complex changes in real organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cloud architecture and delivery, designing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud platforms on Google Cloud and adjacent technologies.


• Build and operate at scale, implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, automating deployment and management of cloud environments, and ensuring fault tolerance, redundancy, and disaster recovery.


• Set the engineering standard by establishing and upholding platform standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, observability, and reliability.


• Engage clients as a trusted adviser, running discovery workshops, presenting architectures, and translating business problems into platform decisions.


• Embed security and compliance by implementing controls that protect client infrastructure and data, responding to incidents, and ensuring alignment with standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.


• Operate and improve in production by monitoring cloud infrastructure for performance, availability, and security, and leading root cause analysis on complex incidents.


• Develop the people around you by mentoring and coaching mid-level and graduate engineers, leading design and code reviews, and contributing to hiring through technical interviews.

Required Qualifications

Experience Required:
5+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including at least 3 years on GCP, AWS, or Azure (GCP strongly preferred).
Demonstrable track record across multiple complex engagements, ideally in a consulting, professional services, or platform-team context.

Technical Depth (Essential):
Deep hands-on experience with a major cloud provider, including compute (GCE/EC2/AVM), container orchestration (GKE/EKS/AKS), networking, IAM, and CI/CD primitives such as Cloud Build.
Strong infrastructure automation skills with Terraform. Additional exposure to other IaC tooling would be nice to have (e.g., AWS CDK, Azure ARM and Bicep, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CDKTF).
Containerisation with Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes in production environments. Familiarity with Helm and Kustomize would also be beneficial.
Confident scripting and tooling in Python, Go, Bash, or equivalent.
Solid grounding in cloud networking, identity, security, and Linux fundamentals.
Ability to perform root cause analysis on complex, cross-system issues.
Hold, or be actively working towards, professional Google Cloud certification.
Experienced in configuring base operating systems (RHEL, Windows Server, Ubuntu) in an enterprise production setting (preferably 3 years or more). Ideally using configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).

Senior Capabilities (Essential):
Architectural ownership. Able to lead the design of complex platforms end to end, not just implement against a spec.
Client engagement. Comfortable running workshops, presenting to senior stakeholders, and building trusted-adviser relationships with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Consulting craft. Strong at scoping and estimating work, navigating ambiguous requirements, and supporting pre-sales when needed.
Mentorship. Track record of coaching more junior engineers and lifting the capability of the team around you.
Judgement under uncertainty. Able to operate with minimal direction on high-stakes work, make sound calls under pressure, and know when to escalate.
Communication. Be a clear written and verbal communicator across audiences, from engineers to executives.

Desirable:
Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, public sector).
Experience contributing to thought leadership — talks, writing, open-source contributions, or partner-track activity.
Experience supporting hiring and capability development at a team or practice level.
Having a current Google Cloud Professional qualification would be advantageous.

About qodea

qodea is a company that values supporting its team members both professionally and personally. We offer competitive compensation, health and wellness benefits, and a focus on work-life balance.

Benefits

We believe in supporting our team members both professionally and personally. Here's how we invest in you:

Compensation and Financial Wellbeing:
Competitive base salary.
De Minimis Allowance.
13th Month Pay: Equivalent to one month’s base salary, paid every December.

Health and Wellness:
Medical Insurance: HMO coverage for the employee plus up to two dependents (employer-paid).
Sick Leave: 15 paid days per year, pro-rated from the start date.

Work-Life Balance and Growth:
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