Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote, Greenfield)

iO Associates; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity / share options

Company pension

Fully remote

Job summary

iO Associates is seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Engineer with SC clearance to own a greenfield cloud platform in a highly regulated environment. You will design, build and operate secure GCP infrastructure, manage Kubernetes (GKE) clusters, and implement IaC with Terraform while automating CI/CD pipelines.

You will work across security-conscious deployments, observability, and resilience, contributing to a scalable platform with modern tooling and open-source technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building and operating production GCP environments.
• Deep Kubernetes and GKE expertise.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation.
• Security-conscious approach with experience delivering resilient cloud platforms.
• Experience working within secure or highly regulated environments.
• Defence, Government or other high-assurance environments.
• Air-gapped or restricted network deployments.
• CKA or CKAD certification.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud.
• Own Kubernetes (GKE) platforms and container orchestration.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability across the platform.
• Drive platform security, networking and resilience.
• Support deployments into secure, high-assurance environments.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

SC Clearance

Education

CKA/CKAD certification

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kafka

Vault

Keycloak

Cilium

eBPF

Job description

iO Associates is seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Engineer with SC clearance to own a greenfield cloud platform in a highly regulated environment. You will design, build and operate secure GCP infrastructure, manage Kubernetes (GKE) clusters, and implement IaC with Terraform while automating CI/CD pipelines.

You will work across security-conscious deployments, observability, and resilience, contributing to a scalable platform with modern tooling and open-source technologies.