Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP / AWS - SC Cleared

SR2; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support discovery and design of a future-state Google Cloud Platform environment within central government.

The role is focused on GCP with openness to experienced AWS engineers who want to deepen their GCP skills, and you'll work with the Lead Cloud Architect to validate landing zones, governance and security while implementing scalable IaC and cloud-native pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Assess the existing GCP estate, platform configuration and engineering practices.
• Review GCP organisation administration, project governance, resource hierarchies and IAM controls.
• Evaluate cloud security capabilities, audit logging and monitoring, including GCP Security Command Center.
• Validate the technical feasibility of the proposed landing zone, security architecture and governance model.
• Identify implementation risks, technical dependencies and remediation priorities.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for the target landing zone and project-vending approach.
• Design and review Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with opportunities to develop experience in Google Cloud Fabric.
• Support CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or comparable to

Skills

GCP

AWS

Cloud architecture

IAM

Landing zone

Security

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Fabric

GitHub Actions

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP / AWS - SC Cleared

We are recruiting a Senior Cloud Engineer to support the discovery and design of a future-state Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment within central government.

Whilst this is a GCP-focused engagement, we are open to experienced AWS Cloud Engineers who have a foundational understanding of GCP and are keen to develop their expertise further. The role offers an opportunity to apply existing enterprise cloud engineering skills within a GCP environment, with scope to cross-train and build deeper platform-specific experience.

You will work closely with the Lead Cloud Architect to assess the existing environment, validate architectural decisions and ensure the proposed landing zone, governance and security models can be implemented effectively.

We are particularly interested in engineers who have delivered complex cloud environments, understand enterprise-scale platform engineering and can transfer their knowledge across cloud providers.

Role responsibilities

• Assess the existing GCP estate, platform configuration and engineering practices.
• Review GCP organisation administration, project governance, resource hierarchies and IAM controls.
• Evaluate cloud security capabilities, audit logging and monitoring, including GCP Security Command Center.
• Validate the technical feasibility of the proposed landing zone, security architecture and governance model.
• Identify implementation risks, technical dependencies and remediation priorities.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for the target landing zone and project-vending approach.
• Design and review Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with opportunities to develop experience in Google Cloud Fabric.
• Support CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or comparable to