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# Lead Platform Engineer (GCP)

- **Company:** Franklin Fitch Limited
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, DevOps, Data Flow Control, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Scripting, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Data Analytics, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5823208848

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
 * Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
 * Expertise in Terraform or OpenTofu and Infrastructure as Code.
 * Experience with Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run.
 * Strong understanding of CI/CD, automation and cloud-native engineering practices.
 * Experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow or other modern data platform technologies is highly desirable.
 * Knowledge of observability, monitoring and FinOps principles.
 * Scripting experience with Python or Bash.
 * Strong communication skills and an agile, collaborative mindset.
 * Fluent English is required; German is beneficial but not essential.

## Description

Are you passionate about Google Cloud, Kubernetes and building scalable cloud platforms? Would you like to help build a next-generation Data Platform from the ground up while working with modern cloud-native technologies?

We are looking for a Senior Platform Cloud Engineer / Tech Lead (m/f/d) to join a newly established Data Platform team. In this role, you will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership , helping define the cloud strategy and architecture for a modern data platform running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Working alongside Data Engineers, Software Engineers and Security teams, you will play a key role in building secure, scalable and automated cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale analytics and data-driven products.

Aufgaben

 * Design, build and continuously improve a modern Data Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
 * Develop and maintain the GCP Landing Zone, including organisation structures, IAM, networking and governance.
 * Build scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu).
 * Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and platform operations.
 * Manage containerised workloads using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Docker and Cloud Run.
 * Implement observability, monitoring and logging solutions to ensure platform reliability and performance.
 * As Tech Lead, provide technical direction, mentor engineers and shape engineering standards without people management responsibilities.


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