Principal Platform Engineer | GCP, Kafka Apache, Strimzi & Go | GreenTech House
Salary: £75,000 - £100,000
Location: Old Street, London (one day a week in the office)
This client is a GreenTech house that is the leading provider of AI-powered traffic management solutions that are transforming urban mobility with cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights. This client focuses on delivering detailed multimodal traffic data to support smarter urban planning and proactive traffic solutions. They contribute to deploying innovative systems and accident hotspot analysis, creating safer, more efficient transport networks. This client deals directly with the UK Government.
This role will be split into two parts, looking to drive infrastructure and cloud costs down and keeping the systems resilient because hundreds of gigabytes are being transported per day through their infrastructure with trillions per year. They have a hybrid setup between on-premise Unix infrastructure and a GCP cloud platform. There are ~20 engineers in the technology function and one other platform engineer to who you'll be providing mentorship.
Technology Stack:
Essentials
- GCP
- Apache Kafka & Strimzi (GKE based)
- Unix
- Go, C# or TypeScript
Nice to haves
- IaC - Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Scripting
Package on offer:
- 25 days holiday
- Stock options
- Healthcare insurance via Bupa
- Remote first working
- £200 total working-from-home budget
- Up to 30 days per year work from abroad
Principal Platform Engineer | GCP, Kafka Apache, Strimzi & Go | GreenTech House