Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer (Multiple Locations)

Project Recruit; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider in the UK is looking for a Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer. This hybrid role involves building automated workflows, curating cloud products, and implementing security-focused Terraform modules. The ideal candidate will have hands-on GCP engineering experience, strong DevOps skills, and a proven background in Infrastructure as Code. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and cloud adoption, contributing to scalable and efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in GCP Cloud engineering with a strong DevOps background.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform.
• Ability to curate GCP Cloud products and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build automated workflows using Python scripting.
• Audit and restructure existing Terraform modules.
• Migrate legacy configurations into reusable templates.

Skills

GCP Cloud engineering

Terraform

CI/CD

Python Scripting

Google Kubernetes (GKE)

GitHub

Education

GCP and Terraform Certification

Tools

Terraform Cloud

Jenkins

Job description

Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer (Multiple locations)

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer to be based at their client's offices in Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, or Edinburgh, UK.

This is a hybrid role, offering the flexibility to work remotely within the UK while attending one of the offices 2 days per week.

This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The Role

The client is seeking an experienced Senior GCP Infra DevOps Engineer to be part of their Public Cloud Platform and help achieve their mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud Infra, product and DevOps capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud Adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient and efficient. Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of their wider engineering team delivering change.

Your role as a GCP Cloud Infra & DevOps specialist involves supporting teams with modern DevOps solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Build automated workflows around the products using Python Scripting
• Audit and restructure existing Terraform modules and state files
• Migrate Legacy configurations into unified, reusable templates
• Implement security-focused Terraform modules with Embedded guardrails and policy-as-code (eg, Sentinel, OPA)
• Enforce GCP Org Policies with constraints like IP restrictions, network policy, Access Management, encryption, and region control for secure, compliant cloud governance
• CI/CD Integration
• Implement automation pipelines for infrastructure-as-code deployments

Key Requirements

• Hands-on GCP Cloud engineering with a strong GCP DevOps, Infra and CI/CD background
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and proven experience in Terraform/Terraform Cloud
• Strong hands on experience on curating GCP Cloud products and infrastructure
• Proficient in Google Kubernetes (GKE), Container, Istio Service Mesh, Cluster Management
• Python Scripting.
• Harness, Jenkins, GitHub
• GCP Organisation Policy, Custom Org Policy (Policy as a Code) - Sentinel/OPA
• GCP and Terraform Certified
• Good to have experience working in an IDE Platform for Cloud Engineering (eg Backstage)

Desirable

• Looking for Senior Engineering skills as GCP Cloud SMEs who has contributed also as a Technical Consultant in guiding design, architecture and strategy
• Bringing in thought leadership in driving innovation, best practices
• Good communicator, collaborator and Leader with experience on working with multiple organisational stakeholders

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