Senior Cloud Engineer (GCP/AWS) - SC Cleared

SR2 REC LTD; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 REC LTD seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to support discovery and design of a future-state Google Cloud Platform environment within central government. The role is open to experienced AWS engineers with foundational GCP knowledge and a drive to deepen cloud expertise.

You will collaborate with the Lead Cloud Architect to validate landing zones, governance, and security models, and to ensure successful implementation across enterprise-scale cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms on GCP or AWS.
• Strong understanding of IAM, networking, and security in cloud environments.
• Automation and IaC experience using Terraform or equivalent.

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

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

SR2 REC LTD seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to support discovery and design of a future-state Google Cloud Platform environment within central government. The role is open to experienced AWS engineers with foundational GCP knowledge and a drive to deepen cloud expertise.

You will collaborate with the Lead Cloud Architect to validate landing zones, governance, and security models, and to ensure successful implementation across enterprise-scale cloud environments.