Senior GCP Cloud Engineer, SC Cleared, Terraform Pro

SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to provide technical expertise during the assessment and design of an enterprise Google Cloud Platform environment.

You will work closely with the Lead Cloud Architect to assess the existing GCP estate, validate architectural decisions and develop technical proof-of-concepts to ensure the target state is secure, scalable and implementable.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise GCP engineering and management at scale.
• Strong IAM, organisation policies, audit logging, and Security Command Center knowledge.
• Extensive Terraform / IaC capability.
• Experience with Google Cloud Fabric or comparable landing-zone frameworks.
• CI/CD experience, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Experience delivering enterprise GCP landing zones.
• Strong cloud security and governance understanding.
• Experience in the UK government/public sector is valued.

Responsibilities

• Assess the existing GCP organisation, projects, IAM, security controls and platform configuration.
• Provide technical input into the target GCP landing zone and governance model.
• Review and validate organisation policies, project governance and access-control approaches.
• Assess audit logging, Security Command Center and cloud security controls.
• Develop technical proof-of-concepts for landing zone, project vending and governance capabilities.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Google Cloud Fabric.
• Support CI/CD automation using tooling such as GitHub Actions.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and implementation considerations.
• Ensure proposed architecture aligns with Google Cloud engineering and security best practice.
• Support transition planning and provide implementation recommendations.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform engineering

IAM and policies

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

Google Cloud Fabric

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Security governance

Public sector / government experience

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Fabric

GitHub Actions

Job description

SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to provide technical expertise during the assessment and design of an enterprise Google Cloud Platform environment.

You will work closely with the Lead Cloud Architect to assess the existing GCP estate, validate architectural decisions and develop technical proof-of-concepts to ensure the target state is secure, scalable and implementable.