GCP Infrastructure Engineer - 6-Month Contract (Inside IR35) - Hybrid (Multiple Locations)

Hamilton Barnes; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer for a 6-month contract in the UK. The role involves hands-on engineering and DevOps practices while delivering scalable GCP infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in GCP Cloud Engineering, Terraform, and Python Scripting. This position offers a day rate of £500 and flexible hybrid working from various office locations including Bristol, Leeds, and Manchester.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in GCP Cloud Engineering and DevOps.
• Deep proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building GCP products and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on GCP cloud engineering with DevOps practices.
• Design and maintain scalable GCP Cloud Products using IaC.
• Migrate existing configurations into reusable IaC templates.

Skills

GCP Cloud Engineering

Terraform

Python Scripting

CI/CD tools

GKE

Containers

Job description

GCP Infrastructure Engineer - 6-Month Contract (Inside IR35) - Hybrid (Multiple locations)

We're looking for a Senior GCP Infrastructure DevOps Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform and play a key role in delivering compliant, scalable and efficient Google Cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities across the Group.

Office Locations: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver hands‑on GCP cloud engineering with a strong background in DevOps and CI/CD.
• Design, curate and maintain scalable GCP Cloud Products using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Develop automated workflows and tooling using Python Scripting.
• Work with GKE, containers, Istio service mesh and cluster management.
• Audit, optimise and refactor existing Terraform modules, state files and architectures.
• Migrate Legacy configurations into unified, reusable IaC templates.
• Implement security‑focused Terraform modules with guardrails and policy‑as‑code (eg, Sentinel, OPA).

What You Will Ideally Bring:

• Strong experience in GCP Cloud Engineering, GCP Infra, and GCP DevOps.
• Deep proficiency with Terraform/Terraform Cloud (IaC).
• Hands‑on experience building GCP products, services and infrastructure.
• Solid Python Scripting and automation capabilities.
• Experience with Harness, Jenkins, GitHub or similar CI/CD tools.
• Expertise in GKE, Containers, Istio Service Mesh.

Contract Details:

• Duration: 6 months (with potential extension)
• Day Rate: £500 (Inside IR35)
• Location: Multiple Locations to choose - Hybrid
• Start Date: ASAP