GCP DevOps

Pracyva ltd; Bristol; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 129,000; Part time

Job summary

Pracyva ltd is seeking a GCP DevOps Engineer for a 6-month contract across Bristol, Manchester, Halifax, and Edinburgh. The role is inside IR35.

You will design, build, and operate secure, automated cloud platform capabilities on Google Cloud, with emphasis on Terraform, CI/CD, and security-by-design controls. Leadership and mentoring of an infra engineering team are also expected.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating secure cloud platform capabilities on GCP.
• Proficiency with Terraform and modern CI/CD systems.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers.

Skills

GCP Infra Eng

Terraform & CI/CD

Networking & Security

Observability & Automation

Scripting & Tooling

Leadership & Mentoring

Certifications

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Harness

Backstage

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

We are seeking GCP DevOps Engineer in Bristol / Manchester/ Halifax / Edinburgh for a contract role inside IR35. This is a 6 months contract.

Skills Required

• Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities, with a focus on Google compute products and services.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform (minimum), Jenkins, and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins).
• Networking & Security: Experience with GCP Cloud Armor, GCP Networking, and embedding secure-by-design controls from design to runtime.
• Automation & Observability: Implementing actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil. Defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs.
• Scripting & Tooling: Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, Harness, and Backstage is desirable.
• Team Leadership, Collaboration & Mentoring: Ability to lead and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers, ensuring cross-team collaboration and mentoring.
• Certifications: Relevant GCP certifications are desirable.

Key Skills

• Google Cloud Platform infrastructure:
• Compute Engine, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machines, Windows virtual machines, Local SSD, Persistent Disk, Cloud Networking, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage, Cloud Key Management, Cloud Secret Manager, Dynatrace, GitHub Enterprise, HashiCorp products, including Terraform and Packer, Jenkins, Backstage, Jira Cloud and Jira Align