Location:Belfast, NI (Hybrid) Job Summary: Embark on a journey where you'll lead the charge to Platform Engineering on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specializing in a new Google Cloud and Data Engineering initiative. Drive the evolution of our data infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and scalability across all platforms. As a Platform Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and managing advanced cloud solutions, enhancing our data-driven capabilities. Responsibilities: Collaborate with data science and development teams to optimize data workflows and infrastructure, ensuring efficient and robust data processing on GCP using Looker and Big Query. Innovate and solve complex data challenges, leveraging GCP's capabilities to deliver high-performance solutions. Define and establish best practices for infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, ensuring consistent and scalable deployments. Lead the automation of data pipeline deployments, focusing on reliability and observability. Provide expert guidance on platform architecture, ensuring alignment with cloud best practices and data engineering principles. Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience. Strong experience in GCP, with an emphasis on data engineering and infrastructure management. Proficiency in Terraform for managing GCP resources. Strong Python scripting skills, with a focus on automating data engineering tasks. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration in data processing environments. Passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex data challenges and improve platform efficiency. aPriori Offers: Hybrid working (1-3 days a week in the Belfast office) Competitive compensation Unique benefits including generous pension, private medical & dental & vision, cycle-to- work scheme, flexible time off, aPriori days (4 additional days off per year), income protection and employee assistance program Employee engagement activities such as a summer event, Christmas party and volunteering day. A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice heard, and your work impacts our customers and employees. About aPriori: Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industrys status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up. With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, and an additional day off each quarter known as aPriori Day. Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, How can I do better? and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each others successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you aPriori is an equal opportunities employer. We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone. All candidates will be required to demonstrate right to work in UK. Li-hybrid GDPR Notice: Skills: Scripting skills python Degree in Computer Science leadership skills