GCP Cloud Engineer

Vallum Associates; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a GCP Cloud Engineer to work on impactful systems at a top global financial institution. This role, based in Sheffield, Birmingham, or Edinburgh, offers the opportunity to utilize cloud engineering expertise to deploy and configure services, with a competitive rate of 500GBP/day inside IR35. Ideal candidates will have extensive GCP experience and knowledge of DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, particularly with GCP.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud services and networking.
• Proven experience with CI/CD practices and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure backend API services using GCP.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure across GCP.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

GCP

DevOps

Linux

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Job description

Role: GCP Cloud Engineer

Location: Sheffield or Birmingham or Edinburgh UK (3days/Week Onsite)

Duration: 6 Months +

500GBP/day Inside IR35

Job Description

Our client is seeking a driven and seasoned GCP Cloud Engineer to aid in the development of services on Public Cloud Platforms. Utilise your Cloud Engineering expertise and DevOps skills across GCP to deploy and configure robust backend services, automate infrastructure, and employ CSP services. This role offers the chance to work on impactful systems within a secure, high-availability setting at a leading global financial institution.

Responsibilities include:

• Deploying, configuring and securing backend REST API services using CSP services.

• Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code.

• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls.

• Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.

• Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.

• Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.

The ideal candidate for this role:

• A background in Cloud Engineering with infrastructure experience.

• Over 5 years of development experience, focusing on large-scale, distributed systems.

• Hands-on experience with GCP, including CSP services, networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL) and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is advantageous.

• Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.

• A strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.

• Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information effectively to diverse audiences.

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

Essential Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of:

• Public Cloud.

• Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.

• Linux.

• Relational and NoSQL databases.

• Integration services such as messaging and streams.

• Building RESTful API Services.

• Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.

• Microservices and distributed tracing.

• Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Automation scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).

• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.

• Experience working within an Agile environment.

• A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).

• The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.

• Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.

• Programming experience in Python and Golang.

• GCP certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer / GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer).

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