Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

We are supporting a major global IT services provider delivering platform engineering services for one of the world's leading international financial institutions. They are seeking a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to help build, operate and industrialise modern cloud-native platforms across hybrid and public cloud environments. This role sits within a high-impact platform engineering programme focused on automation, reliability engineering and secure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale digital transformation., Platform Engineering & Operations

• Build, operate and continuously improve lab and production platforms across Google Cloud (GKE/GKE On-Prem/GDC).
• Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, including:

• Cluster life cycle management
• Upgrades and patching
• Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 automation
• Drift remediation and reliability engineering

• Implement GitOps-first operations using Argo CD.
• Enforce platform standards, configuration baselines and compliance evidence collection.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Engineer consistent infrastructure across public and private cloud environments using:

• Terraform Enterprise
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Metalsoft

• Develop and maintain multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Build reusable Golden Path modules and templated infrastructure stacks.

Security, Zero Trust & Secrets Management

• Embed Zero Trust principles including MFA, IP allow-listing, IAP and HA VPN.
• Implement enterprise secrets life cycle management using Akeyless.
• Integrate compliance controls, CI policy gates and audit trails aligned with financial regulatory requirements

• CI/CD and IaC automation using:

• GitHub Actions
• Terraform Enterprise
• Ansible Automation Platform

• GitOps operations using Argo CD
• Kubernetes platform life cycle management
• Terraform workspace and module design across cloud environments
• Secrets life cycle and vault patterns (eg Akeyless)
• Multi-stage infrastructure and application pipelines
• Building reusable Golden Path infrastructure modules

Practitioner Level

• Kubernetes operations and patch automation
• Drift remediation and reliability engineering
• Secret rotation automation and compliance evidence collection
• Bare-metal infrastructure automation using Metalsoft
• Network and perimeter security controls (MFA, IAP, HA VPN, IP allow listing)
• CI policy checks and security gating
• Infrastructure cost-aware provisioning