GCP Lead Engineer - Hands-On Cloud & Data Platform

SR2 REC LTD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 REC LTD in London is seeking an experienced Lead GCP Engineer to join a major enterprise programme on a 3-month initial contract. You will provide hands‑on technical leadership to an established engineering team, shaping the cloud platform's direction while actively delivering engineering work.

The role focuses on building secure, scalable GCP solutions, advancing Terraform/IaC standards, CI/CD automation, and strong governance.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on GCP experience in a data/analytics platform
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and shape platform roadmaps
• Strong knowledge of Terraform / IaC and CI/CD automation

Responsibilities

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across a strategic GCP data and analytics platform
• Set technical direction and help shape the platform roadmap
• Design and deliver secure, scalable and resilient GCP solutions
• Mentor engineers and improve technical capability across the team
• Drive engineering standards and knowledge sharing
• Remain hands‑on with engineering delivery, troubleshooting and technical problem‑solving
• Lead solution design, technical reviews and engineering assurance
• Improve Terraform / Infrastructure as Code standards and reusable patterns
• Develop and enhance CI/CD and deployment automation
• Improve monitoring, observability, alerting and operational readiness
• Support cloud‑based data integration and analytical workloads
• Ensure solutions meet demanding security, governance and audit requirements
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to turn requirements into pragmatic solutions

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Ownership

DevOps culture

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Tools

GCP

Terraform

BigQuery

Python

SQL

CI/CD

OAuth/OIDC

Job description

SR2 REC LTD in London is seeking an experienced Lead GCP Engineer to join a major enterprise programme on a 3-month initial contract. You will provide hands‑on technical leadership to an established engineering team, shaping the cloud platform's direction while actively delivering engineering work.

The role focuses on building secure, scalable GCP solutions, advancing Terraform/IaC standards, CI/CD automation, and strong governance.