Principal Platform Engineer - Remote Eligible

Principal Platform Engineer

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you'll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We're driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practices using Google Cloud solutions.

How You'll Shape Our Success

The main purpose of this role is to lead cloud technology initiatives by applying deep technical expertise and business insight to help shape internal engineering standards.

What You'll Do:

• Act as a trusted advisor to customers, developing a deep understanding of their technical challenges and leveraging GCP technologies, patterns and practices to address them effectively.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Design highly available, cloud native platforms tailored to customer needs
• Advise customers on modern software development and architecture techniques such as 12 factor applications, microservices and serverless architectures
• Develop internal tooling for the wider Platform Team, that can help us to do more, and be more effective
• Collaborate with customers and our Pre-sales Team to translate requirements into technical designs and guide the process through to solution delivery
• Partner with our Pre-sales Team to support the development of Go-To-Market strategies that align with customer needs and business goals
• Keep abreast of technology developments, ensuring the Qodea business remains ahead of the technology curve.
• Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community. We can align this to your strengths, for example technical writing or presenting at events.
• Get involved in our drive towards social progress where possible. Whether that's getting involved in one of our community projects at Qodea or simply buying local when travelling with the company.