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Location: London / Hybrid (2 days a week in the office)
Reporting to: Platforms Engineering Manager
Role Overview
As a Platform Engineer in our Cloud Foundations team, you will design, implement and maintain our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP.
- Help migrate legacy and on‑premise workloads to the cloud.
- Automate infrastructure with Terraform, enabling faster and more reliable deployments.
- Maintain container platforms using GKE and Helm.
- Shape cloud networking, including load balancing, CDNs, API gateways, and service mesh.
- Ensure security, resilience, and alignment with cloud security best practices.
- Set up monitoring, logging, and observability for easy issue detection and resolution.
- Optimize performance and spend, finding smart ways to reduce costs.
- Tackle complex infrastructure problems, working with cross‑functional teams to resolve them.
Qualifications
- Hands‑on experience as a cloud infrastructure engineer, preferably focused on GCP.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Experience building and running containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies and how they support modern platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts in the cloud.
- Experience using CI/CD pipelines (such as GitLab CI) to deploy and manage infrastructure.
- Comfort with at least one programming or scripting language in an infrastructure context.
- Experience with secrets management, monitoring, logging, and observability tooling.
- Good grasp of cloud security principles and compliance considerations.
- Practical experience optimizing cloud costs and using resources efficiently.
Nice to Have
- Experience with event‑driven or microservices architectures (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka).
- Exposure to tuning or operating search or data platforms like Elasticsearch.
- Familiarity with serverless concepts and when they are appropriate.
- Experience improving infrastructure performance and reliability.
- Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure needs on GCP.
Benefits
- Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
- Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
- 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days annually.
- Contributory stakeholder pension.
- Life assurance at 4× base salary to spouse or family member.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
- Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
- Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
- Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success.
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Location: London
Job Description:
Location: London / Hybrid (2 days a week in the office)
Reporting to: Platforms Engineering Manager
Role Overview
As a Platform Engineer in our Cloud Foundations team, you will design, implement and maintain our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP.
- Help migrate legacy and on‑premise workloads to the cloud.
- Automate infrastructure with Terraform, enabling faster and more reliable deployments.
- Maintain container platforms using GKE and Helm.
- Shape cloud networking, including load balancing, CDNs, API gateways, and service mesh.
- Ensure security, resilience, and alignment with cloud security best practices.
- Set up monitoring, logging, and observability for easy issue detection and resolution.
- Optimize performance and spend, finding smart ways to reduce costs.
- Tackle complex infrastructure problems, working with cross‑functional teams to resolve them.
Qualifications
- Hands‑on experience as a cloud infrastructure engineer, preferably focused on GCP.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Experience building and running containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies and how they support modern platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts in the cloud.
- Experience using CI/CD pipelines (such as GitLab CI) to deploy and manage infrastructure.
- Comfort with at least one programming or scripting language in an infrastructure context.
- Experience with secrets management, monitoring, logging, and observability tooling.
- Good grasp of cloud security principles and compliance considerations.
- Practical experience optimizing cloud costs and using resources efficiently.
Nice to Have
- Experience with event‑driven or microservices architectures (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka).
- Exposure to tuning or operating search or data platforms like Elasticsearch.
- Familiarity with serverless concepts and when they are appropriate.
- Experience improving infrastructure performance and reliability.
- Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure needs on GCP.
Benefits
- Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
- Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
- 27 days holiday plus two paid volunteering days annually.
- Contributory stakeholder pension.
- Life assurance at 4× base salary to spouse or family member.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
- Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
- Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
- Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success.
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Posted: May 18th, 2026