Senior GCP Platform Engineer - Infra, IaC & CI/CD

Opticore IT Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Opticore IT Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and operate GCP foundational services for a large enterprise client. The role is a 6-month contract (Inside IR35) with 1 day per week on site in London.

You will work with embedded Google architects to implement the architecture review and enable cloud deployment at scale, including Terraform-based infra, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls. Expect a split between project delivery and operational support.

Qualifications

• GCP Architect Professional certification with hands-on experience in Shared VPC, Compute, GKE and Cloud Run.
• IaC with Terraform across org hierarchy (folders, projects, IAM, networking).
• CI/CD pipelines ownership and automation using GitHub Actions.
• Implement architecture-review changes and produce runbooks for operations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver foundational GCP services in landing zones with embedded Google architects.
• Design and implement Terraform-driven infrastructure across the GCP hierarchy.
• Build and own CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and policy as code.
• Lead ongoing changes from the GCP architecture review.
• Manage Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls for secure projects.
• Deploy workloads across GKE, Compute, and Cloud Run.
• Coordinate with Network Team on landing zone standards and firewall integration.
• Produce operational runbooks for steady-state operations handover.
• Support SNP's next deployment phase with agility.
• Balance time ~50/50 between project delivery and operational support.

Skills

GCP architecture

Terraform (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

Runbooks & operations handover

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Opticore IT Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and operate GCP foundational services for a large enterprise client. The role is a 6-month contract (Inside IR35) with 1 day per week on site in London.

You will work with embedded Google architects to implement the architecture review and enable cloud deployment at scale, including Terraform-based infra, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls. Expect a split between project delivery and operational support.