Google DevOps Engineer

PA Consulting; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Principal GCP Engineer to deliver innovative Google Cloud solutions. The role involves leading architecture discussions, mentoring teams, and direct client engagement. Candidates should have deep expertise in Google Cloud services and experience in cloud architecture. This position offers a hybrid working environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Qualifications

• Deep experience with GCP and its services.
• Comfortable leading architectural discussions.
• Experience in DevSecOps processes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform.
• Lead discussions and architectural reviews.
• Coach and mentor team members.

Skills

Cloud Functions

Kubernetes Engine

VPCs

Microservices patterns

Development experience (Python, Node)

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer‑centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech‑driven world.

Why consider joining our Digital & Data community?

• Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross‑disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.
• Hybrid working – our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
• Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors – no project is ever the same
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring
• Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non‑technical training), plus gain certifications

Role description and objectives

As a Principal GCP Engineer, you'll be a true subject matter expert for delivering ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. We'll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.

• You’ll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions.
• Using your experience of the DevSecOps processes, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place.
• You will be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.
• Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role.
• You will help shape proposals (working with a bid team) and will leverage your technical skills to articulate appropriate solutions and may present these during a formal selection process.
• You’ll play an active role in technical account management.

As part of this role you will design ingenious GCP‑enabled solutions and services for brilliant clients across industry sectors. You will learn and grow – PA will support you to further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications. Expect a sleeves‑up, fully associated, and immersive working week. All our people are client facing and empowered to fulfil the best outcome for their clients.

Qualifications

Professional experience✅

To be successful in this role, you will need to have knowledge of the following products and deep experience in one or more of the categories:

• Cloud Functions, Cloud Run
• Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine
• VPCs, Service Perimeters
• Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore
• API Endpoints, Apigee, API Gateway
• Vertex AI, Model Garden, ADK and Agent Engine
• Security Command Centre, IAP, IAM

Additionally you should have a sound understanding of the following Architectural principles:

• Microservices patterns
• Event‑driven architectures and message queues
• Relational and non‑relational databases
• Development and/or scripting experience (e.g. Python, Node, Bash)
• Secured, hardened

In addition to the above, we would be thrilled if you also had:

• Knowledge of other cloud platforms
• Automation DevOps experience using Google tech like Cloud Build and open source tech like terraform

Personal qualities

We are looking for an experienced person to join, and be instrumental within, our Google Alliance team. This is a critical role, one that will stretch you personally and professionally, and require you to utilise your creative, cognitive, and emotional intelligence. Therefore we expect that:

• You are pragmatic and already understand that building a platform is only part of what cloud engineering entails.
• You can clearly communicate with both clients and peers, describing technical issues and solutions in both written and meeting/workshop contexts.
• You are able to clearly explain technical concepts to non technical audiences at all levels of an organisation.
• You are able to influence and persuade senior and specialist client stakeholders, potentially across multiple organisational boundaries without direct authority.
• You are a confident problem solver and troubleshooter.
• You are a confident and generous in sharing your specialist knowledge, ideas and solutions.
• You are constantly learning and able to make others better by consciously teaching and unconsciously inspiring.
• You are obsessed with ensuring PA’s reputation and credibility is always regarded at a remarkably elevated level, and unafraid to initiate corrective actions should this not be at our desired level.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well‑being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity‑based initiatives
• Annual performance‑based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations – Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]

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