GCP DevOps Engineer

your Jared

Sheffield

Hybrid

GBP 111,000 - 138,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

your Jared is seeking a GCP DevOps Engineer to lead design, automation, and operation of cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud, leveraging Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines. You will drive Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and DevSecOps practices to enable reliable and secure deployments.

Responsibilities include maintaining IaC, Jenkins pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes expertise, and collaboration across teams to optimise platform reliability in hybrid and

Qualifications

Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
Strong Kubernetes, Docker and Helm expertise for deployments.
IaC expert using Terraform and Ansible to automate infra.
Proficient in CI/CD with Jenkins and Groovy pipelines.
Unix/Linux administration and Bash scripting proficiency.

Responsibilities

Lead design, automation and operation of cloud-native platforms on GCP.
Develop and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines and automation.
Enforce DevSecOps practices including security scanning.
Collaborate across teams to improve platform reliability and performance.
Manage hybrid and public cloud deployments and monitoring integrations.
Troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

Skills

GCP Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Jenkins Groovy

Terraform Ansible

Python scripting

Linux administration

Datadog

Grafana

AppDynamics

DevSecOps

Git

Kubernetes

Helm

Nexus GCR

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Nexus

GCR

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

The Role: GCP DevOps Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: Remote

Job Description:

Lead the design, automation, and operation of scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud, leveraging Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines. Drive Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and DevSecOps practices to enable reliable and secure application deployments. Manage enterprise-grade CI/CD ecosystems using Jenkins, Docker, Helm, and Git-based workflows while integrating quality and security scanning tools. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to optimise platform reliability, performance, and automation across hybrid and public cloud environments.

Your responsibilities:

Deep knowledge on Google Cloud Platform - GCP Certification and Kubernetes Cloud Certification
Write and maintain high-quality Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Ansible, Python, Terraform).
Unix administration skills. Bash/shell scripting.
CI/CD Tools and Architecture: Proficiency with tools like Jenkins and a strong understanding of pipeline service design patterns.
Expert level Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts expertise for managing API workload builds, integrations and deployments.
Very good understanding on Google cloud services such as GKE, MIGs, CloudSQL, MemoryStore including integration patterns with GKE workloads.
Good understanding on monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana for tooling integrations
Well conversant on git branching strategy to manage builds using Java Maven, NPM build tools and repositories like Nexus, GCR
Kubernetes and Hosting VMs: Deep knowledge and hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters or virtual machines (GKE).
Enterprise DevOps Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise DevOps environments, including networks and firewalls.
Work with hybrid cloud and public cloud.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment processes.
Hands on experience on automation of build, deployments, code scanning tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx, container scan, automation of tooling integration using web services via pipelines.
Hands on skills for building Jenkins scripted pipelines using groovy language along with as multi-branching, web hooks, credentials, permissions usage.