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

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