Senior GCP DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes & IaC | Remote

Sr2 Rec Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Sr2 Rec Ltd is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to own and operate a distributed cloud platform for a major data initiative. The role is hands-on, focusing on GCP, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and observability within secure environments.

You’ll work on edge and central clusters, use open-source tooling, and ensure robust security and connectivity across restricted networks. The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes/GKE experience, strong IaC and CI/CD capabilities, and is eligible for UK security

Qualifications

• Senior cloud engineer with hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
• Designing, building and operating a distributed cloud platform spanning edge and central Kubernetes clusters.
• Infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment pipelines with CI/CD.
• Experience delivering in restricted, air-gapped and regulated environments.
• Strong networking, security posture and platform observability.
• SC clearance or eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
• Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures and open-source stacks.
• Experience with secret management and identity controls.

Responsibilities

• Designing and operating secure, resilient infrastructure within Google Cloud.
• Building and managing production Kubernetes clusters using GKE.
• Supporting distributed edge and central cluster architecture.
• Owning IaC and automated deployment processes.
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Implementing monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki.
• Hardening platforms with network policies and secret management.
• Supporting deployments into air-gapped environments.
• Working with open-source components and avoiding vendor lock-in.
• Collaborating in an autonomous engineering team.
• Providing strong DevOps/Platform Engineering leadership.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Air-gapped environments

SC clearance

Multi-cluster

Python/Bash/Go

Education

CKA/CKAD certification

Tools

GKE

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Cilium

eBPF

Kubernetes network policies

Vault

Keycloak

PKI

Strimzi

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

Sr2 Rec Ltd is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to own and operate a distributed cloud platform for a major data initiative. The role is hands-on, focusing on GCP, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and observability within secure environments.

You’ll work on edge and central clusters, use open-source tooling, and ensure robust security and connectivity across restricted networks. The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes/GKE experience, strong IaC and CI/CD capabilities, and is eligible for UK security