Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer | Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Job summary

La Fosse is hiring a Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve a cloud-native data platform in a hybrid model. You will design and operate GCP infrastructure, refine Terraform modules, and drive end-to-end platform automation, enabling data engineering teams with self-service capabilities.

You'll work autonomously, collaborating with Data Engineering and Platform squads while upholding security, governance and best practices across cloud environments including Azure.

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, take ownership of technical delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Pragmatic approach to engineering, balancing technical excellence with business needs.
• Experience with Backstage or similar developer enablement tooling.
• Experience with BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Dataflow or Dataplex.
• Exposure to both GCP and Azure environments.
• Experience supporting modern data platforms or analytics environments.
• Experience working within regulated industries such as insurance or financial services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure within GCP using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• 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

Stakeholder mgmt

Autonomy

Communication

Tools

Backstage

BigQuery

Cloud Composer

Cloud Run

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Dataplex

Azure

Terraform

Job description

La Fosse is hiring a Senior GCP Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve a cloud-native data platform in a hybrid model. You will design and operate GCP infrastructure, refine Terraform modules, and drive end-to-end platform automation, enabling data engineering teams with self-service capabilities.

You'll work autonomously, collaborating with Data Engineering and Platform squads while upholding security, governance and best practices across cloud environments including Azure.