DevOps Engineer (GCP, K8s)
ETeam Inc
Birmingham, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 148KJob location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Cloud Computing
Code Review
DevOps
Identity and Access Management
Python
Role-Based Access Control
Prometheus
Data Logging
Grafana
Caching
GIT
Containerization
Kubernetes
Terraform
Devsecops
Docker
Jenkins
Job description
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you., * Diagnose and resolve performance issues across k8s 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.
Requirements
- 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.