Cloud Platform Engineer - Google Cloud (GCP)

Salary: £60,000 - £72,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Lead Platform Engineer

Department: IT

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This role operates primarily on a remote working arrangement that will require little to no travel into our Coventry head office or various campuses. Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

About Arden University :

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education, by leading the thoughtful integration of AI into teaching and learning and equipping our students to thrive in an AI-enabled world.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations..

About our Department :

The Cloud Platform Engineer - Google Cloud (GCP) sits within our Technology Department that is crucial to making sure our employees and students can work effectively, deliver projects, find the right solutions and ensure we develop the technology that will make the biggest difference.

Our IT team is made up of around 100 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and Security.

Our IT Department values employee development and we have lots of great examples of employee progression and promotions within the team.

About the Opportunity:

As a Cloud Platform Engineer - Google Cloud (GCP), you will play a key role in designing, building and operating Arden University’s Google Cloud platform, including the cloud infrastructure and services that underpin our production Agentic AI capabilities. You will establish secure, resilient and scalable cloud foundations, develop reusable platform capabilities and strengthen DevOps practices, enabling our product, integration, data and AI teams to deliver services safely and efficiently.