Senior GCP Enigneer
Charles Simon Associates Ltd
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
15 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 85KJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Python
Policy as Code
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
Istio
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Cloud Migration
Terraform
Jenkins
Job description
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Terraform & Terraform Cloud
- GKE / Kubernetes
- Python scripting & automation
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps / Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Cloud Networking & Security
- Containers / Service Mesh / Istio
The Role: You will be responsible for designing, building and improving scalable GCP infrastructure products and reusable Terraform modules across a large cloud estate.
You will work closely with engineering teams to automate infrastructure delivery, improve platform reliability, implement cloud governance and drive DevOps best practices., * Build and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform & Terraform Cloud
- Develop reusable IaC modules and improve state management
- Automate operational processes and tooling using Python
- Engineer secure GCP landing zones and policy driven cloud environments
- Work with GKE, Kubernetes, containers and service mesh technologies including Istio
- Integrate and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins and Harness
- Support cloud adoption and platform engineering initiatives across multiple teams
- Implement cloud security, governance and policy as code frameworks
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience within GCP cloud engineering
- Advanced Terraform experience including modules and enterprise scale environments
- Experience with Kubernetes / GKE administration and engineering
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and automation
- Python scripting experience
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure automation
- Knowledge of cloud security, governance and policy as code
Desirable:
- GCP certifications
- Terraform certifications
- Consulting or enterprise scale platform engineering experience
- Experience with Backstage or internal developer platforms
Benefits & conditions
- Modern cloud-first GCP environment
- Large scale engineering projects
- Strong progression and technical development opportunities
- Hybrid working
- Bonus and comprehensive benefits package
- High autonomy engineering culture
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