DevOps Engineer - GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins

GCS Ltd

Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Job location

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure

Cloud Computing

Code Review

Continuous Integration

DevOps

Identity and Access Management

Python

Role-Based Access Control

Prometheus

Data Logging

Google Cloud Platform

Autoscaling

System Availability

Grafana

Caching

GIT

Containerization

Kubernetes

Terraform

Devsecops

Docker

Jenkins

Job description

Diagnose and resolve performance issues across kubernetes clusters (networking, autoscaling, resource tuning). Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton). Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows (artifact strategy, caching, security gates). Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and performance dashboards. Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and environment provisioning in GCP. Enforce DevSecOps best practices (image hardening, secrets management, SBOM, scanning). Support incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning. Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence., UK non-london (hybrid). - 3 days in office - Candidate must be in office 3 days a week, this can either be in Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham or Edinburgh office, whicher is local to candidate

Deliverables (First 30 Days): - Assess existing GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure and produce an optimization report focused on Jenkins OS and controller performance. Implement approved optimizations to stabilize Jenkins controllers and reduce risk of downtime.

Please apply if you have Kubernetes, GCP, Python and Jenkins/Tekton experience.

Requirements

My client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to work as part of a team to ensure platform stability, availability and CI/CD pipelines to ensure the platform is stable for all the engineers to work in the environment.

Top Skills

5+ years DevOps and Platform experience - GCP (preferred), AWS/Azure
Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Jenkins - to define and provision infrastucture in cloud and automate, build test and deploy code
Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes - to automate deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications
CI/CD pipelines - Working on CI/CD high availability to ensure CI/CD systems remains operational and resilient.
Large scale enterprise/structured environment experience highly preferred ie Banking, Financial Services etc., Expert Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controllers, pod life cycle, RBAC, networking, ingress, HPA/VPA). Expert GCP services (GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM). Performance troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning). Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform modules, state management, policy enforcement). Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, alert tuning). Strong Python (packages, virtual environments, dependency management, performance profiling). Strong Jenkins (shared libraries, pipelines-as-code) & Tekton (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers). Containerization (Docker image optimization, multi-stage builds, runtime security). Git workflows (branching strategy, release tagging, code review automation). Compliance Awareness.