Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer | Hybrid

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (1 day in office)

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking a Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities for a modern, cloud-native data platform in the UK insurance sector.

The role focuses on building scalable cloud infrastructure in GCP, managing IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and enabling data engineering teams with automated tooling and best practices. Hybrid work with 1 day in the office per week is supported.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience operating and engineering platforms within GCP.
• Excellent Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from the ground up.
• Strong DevOps and platform engineering background.
• Experience supporting production cloud environments.
• Knowledge of networking, security and cloud infrastructure best practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.
• Ability to work autonomously, make informed decisions and take ownership of technical delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure within GCP using Infrastructure as Code.
• Own and evolve Terraform modules, deployment standards and platform patterns.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support data platform delivery.
• Support and optimise core GCP services used across the data estate.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging and observability capabilities.
• Define and maintain secure IAM, access control and governance practices.
• Develop reusable tools and automation that improve developer experience.
• Support integration and migration activities between Azure and GCP where required.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational runbooks.
• Partner with Data Engineers and Platform teams to ensure solutions align with wider engineering standards.

Skills

GCP platform engineering

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps / platform engineering

Monitoring & observability

IAM & security governance

Backstage / developer enablement

BigQuery / data services

Azure familiarity

Regulated industry experience

Tools

Backstage

Job description

La Fosse is seeking a Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities for a modern, cloud-native data platform in the UK insurance sector.

The role focuses on building scalable cloud infrastructure in GCP, managing IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and enabling data engineering teams with automated tooling and best practices. Hybrid work with 1 day in the office per week is supported.