GCP Cloud Engineer

Experis; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment agency seeks a GCP Cloud Engineer to work in a hybrid capacity in Sheffield, Birmingham, or Edinburgh. The role involves deploying and securing cloud infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and performance. Essential skills include experience with public cloud services, containerisation, and automation scripting. The ideal candidate thrives in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of public cloud services.
• Good non-functional testing experience.
• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and secure backend REST API services using CSP native services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and cybersecurity teams.

Skills

Public Cloud

Infrastructure build and configurations

Relational and NoSQL databases

Building RESTful API Services

Containerisation

Microservices and distributed tracing

Automation scripting

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Cryptography

Agile experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

ELK

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

GCP Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid (60% office 40% remote - 3 days on site is mandatory) Sheffield (preferred) also open to Birmingham and Edinburgh

Duration: 31/12/2025

Salary: £550

Responsibilities

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

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience of:
• Public Cloud.
• Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
• 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)