Senior GCP Platform Engineer — IaC, CI/CD & GKE Expert

OpticoreIT Limited

Greater London

On-site

GBP 111,000 - 148,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Opticore IT is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and operate GCP foundational services for a large enterprise financial services client. You will work with embedded Google architects to implement the latest architecture and enable the next phase of cloud deployment at scale.

This six-month contract (Inside IR35) requires hands-on experience with Shared VPC, Terraform, GKE, Cloud Run, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

GCP Architect Professional cert is required; hands-on with GCP services.
Experience delivering IaC-based infrastructure and policies.
Proficient in building and owning CI/CD pipelines for cloud infra.
Knowledge of Shared VPC, IAM, networking within GCP is preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver and implement foundational services in GCP landing zones with architecture guidance.
Design and build Terraform-driven infrastructure across GCP org structure (folders, projects, IAM, networking).
Build and own CI/CD pipelines delivering infrastructure and policy as code.
Lead ongoing changes from the GCP architecture review and implement them.
Manage Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls for secure GCP projects.
Build and deploy workloads on GKE, Compute, and Cloud Run.
Collaborate with Network Team on landing zone standards and firewall integration.
Produce runbooks to transition services to steady-state operations.
Support deployment of applications and services at pace.