Domain Architect - Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
United Kingdom
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Job Description
Domain Architect - Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Leeds District (b), England

Job Summary

 A hands-on Principal or Chief Platform Engineer who has designed, built, migrated and operated enterprise Apache Kafka or Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE, with demonstrable production implementation of Conduktor Gateway or an equivalently deep Kafka-protocol gateway capability. The candidate must have owned multi-tenant security, multi-zone/multi-region resilience, Terraform-led automation, observability, SRE/on-call operation and developer self-service in a regulated or mission-critical environment. Non-negotiable Production Kafka/Confluent architecture and operations Deep GCP and GKE engineering Stateful Kubernetes and persistent-storage experience Kafka security and multi-tenancy Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and scripting Kafka resilience, capacity and performance ownership SRE/on-call and major-incident experience Full lifecycle ownership across design, build and run Strongly desirable Direct Conduktor Gateway production experience Confluent for Kubernetes kRaft migration Confluent Cluster Linking/Replicator HashiCorp Vault integration Backstage/IDP and Golden Paths Confluent Cloud migration Banking, payments or another regulated critical-service environment

Key Responsibilities

 A hands-on Principal or Chief Platform Engineer who has designed, built, migrated and operated enterprise Apache Kafka or Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE, with demonstrable production implementation of Conduktor Gateway or an equivalently deep Kafka-protocol gateway capability. The candidate must have owned multi-tenant security, multi-zone/multi-region resilience, Terraform-led automation, observability, SRE/on-call operation and developer self-service in a regulated or mission-critical environment. Non-negotiable Production Kafka/Confluent architecture and operations Deep GCP and GKE engineering Stateful Kubernetes and persistent-storage experience Kafka security and multi-tenancy Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and scripting Kafka resilience, capacity and performance ownership SRE/on-call and major-incident experience Full lifecycle ownership across design, build and run Strongly desirable Direct Conduktor Gateway production experience Confluent for Kubernetes kRaft migration Confluent Cluster Linking/Replicator HashiCorp Vault integration Backstage/IDP and Golden Paths Confluent Cloud migration Banking, payments or another regulated critical-service environment

Skill Requirements

 A hands-on Principal or Chief Platform Engineer who has designed, built, migrated and operated enterprise Apache Kafka or Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE, with demonstrable production implementation of Conduktor Gateway or an equivalently deep Kafka-protocol gateway capability. The candidate must have owned multi-tenant security, multi-zone/multi-region resilience, Terraform-led automation, observability, SRE/on-call operation and developer self-service in a regulated or mission-critical environment. Non-negotiable Production Kafka/Confluent architecture and operations Deep GCP and GKE engineering Stateful Kubernetes and persistent-storage experience Kafka security and multi-tenancy Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and scripting Kafka resilience, capacity and performance ownership SRE/on-call and major-incident experience Full lifecycle ownership across design, build and run Strongly desirable Direct Conduktor Gateway production experience Confluent for Kubernetes kRaft migration Confluent Cluster Linking/Replicator HashiCorp Vault integration Backstage/IDP and Golden Paths Confluent Cloud migration Banking, payments or another regulated critical-service environment

Other Requirements

 A hands-on Principal or Chief Platform Engineer who has designed, built, migrated and operated enterprise Apache Kafka or Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE, with demonstrable production implementation of Conduktor Gateway or an equivalently deep Kafka-protocol gateway capability. The candidate must have owned multi-tenant security, multi-zone/multi-region resilience, Terraform-led automation, observability, SRE/on-call operation and developer self-service in a regulated or mission-critical environment. Non-negotiable Production Kafka/Confluent architecture and operations Deep GCP and GKE engineering Stateful Kubernetes and persistent-storage experience Kafka security and multi-tenancy Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and scripting Kafka resilience, capacity and performance ownership SRE/on-call and major-incident experience Full lifecycle ownership across design, build and run Strongly desirable Direct Conduktor Gateway production experience Confluent for Kubernetes kRaft migration Confluent Cluster Linking/Replicator HashiCorp Vault integration Backstage/IDP and Golden Paths Confluent Cloud migration Banking, payments or another regulated critical-service environment
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