GCP DevOps Engineer

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in the UK is seeking a GCP DevOps Engineer for a 6-month contract, hybrid working model in Leeds. The role involves building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and supporting containerized platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. Candidates must have strong experience with GCP and Terraform and a solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals. Competitive daily rate of up to £480 inside IR35. Apply now to join a dynamic Agile team.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP or another cloud platform.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Support production and non-production environments.
• Manage service configuration and secrets.
• Implement platform security controls and monitoring.

Skills

DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering experience

GCP or another hyperscaler

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins)

Scripting languages (Bash, Python)

Containerised platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)

Cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management)

Distributed or offshore team experience

Job description

GCP DevOps Engineer

6-Months - Inside IR35 - up to £480 per day

Leeds based - hybrid working - 2 day a week on site

Responsibilities

• Build, configure and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in line with agreed patterns and modules.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines for application and platform services, following established standards.
• Operate and support production and non-production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using agreed observability tooling.
• Support containerised workloads and runtime platforms (e.g. Cloud Run, Kubernetes) within defined guardrails.
• Manage service configuration, secrets, and environment variables using approved tooling and processes.
• Support incident investigation and resolution, providing diagnostics and remediation under onshore leadership.
• Implement platform security controls, patching, and hardening based on defined security standards.
• Contribute to platform documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call or operational support rotations where required, following defined escalation paths.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams to deliver platform and reliability improvements

Skills

• Cloud & infrastructure 5-8+ years experience in DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering roles, strong hands‑on experience with GCP or another hyperscaler, proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), experience managing networking, IAM, and service accounts in cloud environments.
• CI/CD & automation strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins), experience automating operational tasks using scripting languages (Bash, Python), familiarity with release management and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
• Runtime & observability experience running containerised platforms (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes), hands‑on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools, ability to diagnose issues using metrics, logs, and traces.
• Security & reliability solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, least privilege), experience implementing reliability and availability best practices, familiarity with compliance‑driven environments and change control processes.
• Ways of working experience working in distributed or offshore teams, comfortable executing from defined architectural patterns and platform standards, clear communicator, able to raise risks, capacity constraints, and operational concerns early.

Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.