Senior GCP Platform Engineer

Company Description

Mobica | Be Extraordinary_ 
We are Mobica, a global software services company headquartered in Manchester, UK, with offices across Europe and the USA. We partner with businesses across multiple industries, from aerospace to finance and semiconductors to automotive, providing them with access to engineering expertise across the entire technology stack.
The Mobica Way

• Well-known Clients and Projects focused on the Technologies of Tomorrow - Our expertly crafted software underpins many of today’s amazing customer experiences. We work with well-known global brands to develop widely used tech. When you join us, you'll be both challenged and supported, and you'll be a part of something extraordinary. 

• Empowered Mobicans driving their Careers - We empower our people to develop their skills, push boundaries and move towards new heights. As a Mobican, you’ll have ample opportunities to advance, learn and grow towards your desired career outcomes.

• Ideas are prioritised over Hierarchy and Biases - In Mobica, you are listened to and valued. We’ve built an environment that fosters open communication. We've made it our mission to ensure all team members feel welcome, protected from discrimination and have access to equal opportunities. 

We believe that employees should be happy - At Mobica, you can define precisely how you would like to work - at home or in the office - we will create the environment for that. You’ll get access to various virtual, offline and on-site events and platforms where you can learn, brainstorm, challenge, express yourself or simply have some fun and make new friends. 

Job Description

We are looking for Platform & Infra Engineer. Your tasks and responsibilities will consist of system administration, understanding of programming languages, network setup, security protocols, problem-solving, cloud services. Role invites to express ideas, facts and opinions: experience elaborating complex ideas as part of design pages, which makes you great to collaborate with.

Responsibilities involve:

• Building a platform and supporting its tenants
• Data analytics platform components maintenance
• Architecture development and experiments
• Preparing cloud-ready and IaC-based solutions
• Managing monitoring and alerting for the platform

Qualifications

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience/knowledge with GCP Public cloud, with experience in building platform on top of it
• Infrastructure as Code mindset - customer tech stack: Terraform with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Public cloud analytics offerings in GCP
• Managed GCP services like Cloud Run, Vertex AI, GKE, BigQuery and Dataproc or similar
• Monitoring, observability, logging and alerting hands-on experience
• Kubernetes deployments and managing Kubernetes applications
• Bash scripting and Linux system administration
• Programming skills (Python & Golang preferred) 
• Knowledge in secure authentication and encrypted workloads (OIDC, KMS, Client/server SS/TLS etc)

Nice to Have:

• Building large-scale and secure applications is a plus
• Contribution to Open-Source projects is an advantage. 
• Distributed cloud computing and storage on GCP 
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably on Google Cloud (GKE)
• Ability to optimize code and infra 
• Automate everything mindset 

Additional Information

What can you expect from us?

• We Learn by doing; you will collaborate with industry experts willing to share their knowledge, passion and experience

• We invest in improving your skills by participating in training and mentoring programs

• You can advance your career with us by choosing from different career paths (technical, management)

• We’ll help to broaden your horizons by working in an open and supportive multicultural environment

• Commercial projects from the domain

• Great atmosphere and supportive environment

• You will work in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere created by many bonding events and activities
  

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary adequate to your skills and performance

• Flexible working hours

• Training programs

• Private medical insurance

• Multisport program

• English lessons

• Company social events

• Domestic relocation assistance

Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We aim to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people we can find from various backgrounds and cultures. Inclusivity and equality are cornerstones of our Mobica community and a big part of what makes us so brilliant to work with. Here, dedication and performance are valued and rewarded regardless of nationality, gender, age, religious beliefs or other personal characteristics. Here, diversity is celebrated, and everyone belongs.

“The benefits of having a diverse workforce from different backgrounds, recruited and developed only on the basis of ability, is a core personal belief for me - so I join with other members of Mobica’s leadership in promoting a commitment to recognise equal opportunities and rights for our talented individuals. Every Mobican can expect to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of personal characteristics or beliefs.”

Gary Butters
CEO