Senior GCP Cloud Engineer - SC Cleared, Landing Zone Expert

SR2; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive a Google Cloud transformation for central government. You will assess the existing GCP estate, validate landing-zone architecture, and develop proofs-of-concept across governance, security, and automation.

Working with the Lead Cloud Architect, you will ensure the target state is secure, scalable and ready for implementation, delivering automated tooling and robust IAM and policy controls in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance required.
• Extensive enterprise GCP engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, policies, and audit logging.
• Advanced Terraform and IaC capability.
• Experience with Google Cloud Fabric or similar enterprise landing-zone frameworks.
• Experience delivering secure cloud platforms in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess the existing GCP organisation, projects, IAM, security controls.
• Validate target landing-zone architecture and governance model.
• Review organisation policies and role-based access controls.
• Evaluate audit logging, Security Command Center and wider cloud security controls.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for landing zones, project vending and governance capabilities.
• Design Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Google Cloud Fabric.
• Support CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or comparable tooling.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and implementation requirements, providing clear recommendations for transition and delivery.

Skills

GCP engineering

Terraform IaC

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Security & governance

IAM & policies

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Security Command Center

Job description

SR2 is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive a Google Cloud transformation for central government. You will assess the existing GCP estate, validate landing-zone architecture, and develop proofs-of-concept across governance, security, and automation.

Working with the Lead Cloud Architect, you will ensure the target state is secure, scalable and ready for implementation, delivering automated tooling and robust IAM and policy controls in a highly regulated environment.