Lead Platform Engineer, Liberty Global

• Proven experience leading high-performing Platform or DevOps teams, including managing offshore or partner resources
• Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Demonstrated success in commercial DevOps or Platform Engineering roles, building automated and reliable infrastructure at scale
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD design and ownership, ideally with tools such as GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar
• Solid understanding of networking, security fundamentals, IAM, VPC design, and cloud governance
• Skilled in debugging using logs, traces, and observability tooling (e.g., Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, OpenTelemetry)
• Demonstrated experience with microservices and API-driven architectures, ideally within data-centric or event-driven environments

Desirable

• As a cloud-native organisation, our hyperscaler platform is the foundation of every product we create and every customer experience we deliver
• This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our GCP estate - making the platform a true enabler for rapid product innovation
• You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary Platform Engineering team spanning CI/CD, networking, security, AIOps, and observability
• Your mission: build a robust, automated, self-service platform that empowers engineering squads and drives the company’s technology-led transformation
• Lead and grow a hybrid team of around 10 Platform Engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, automation, and high performance
• Take full ownership of the GCP platform, including infrastructure design, lifecycle management, cost optimisation, and operational excellence
• Drive security and compliance across the platform, collaborating with the central Security team to ensure all assets align with company policies, regulatory standards, and industry best practices
• Define and uphold quality standards by embedding QA, test automation, and validation into platform services to guarantee accuracy, stability, and data integrity
• Maintain comprehensive, up-to-date documentation covering infrastructure, standards, runbooks, and operational processes
• Actively contribute to agile delivery, working within a Scrum team to design, build, and iterate on platform products and services
• Establish and track key platform metrics such as availability, deployment frequency, MTTR, security posture, and cost efficiency
• Champion platform engineering best practices across the organisation, including GitOps, Infrastructure as Code patterns, environment standardisation, and golden paths