GCP Cloud engineer

For a client active within aviation, We are looking for a hands-on Senior (8+ years) Cloud Engineer to spearhead the modernization ofa digital services Hub. Our current infrastructure was migrated to the cloud but still relies heavily on legacy on-premise patterns. Initially, the contract will be for 6 months with an option to extend.

• Your mission is to refactor this environment into a modern, cost-efficient, and deeply observable serverless platform on GCP. You will be at the intersection of Data Analytics, Platform Engineering, and DevOps.
• By improving development experience and improving pipeline health and stability, you will eliminate operational friction so our business can effortlessly onboard new data sources and trust the data they consume.
• Responsibilities
• Pave a “Golden Path” for CI/CD using GitHub Workflows, abstracting GCP complexity so data engineers can build and deploy without fighting the infrastructure.
• Audit, optimize, and maintain the existing Terraform codebase using reusable and modular components that enforce monitoring.
• Migrate from a fragmented, custom-scripted alerting to a unified Dynatrace implementation.
• Take the team along explaining the “why” behind design choices, openly review them with the team, and pragmatically adapt your designs to align with organizational constraints and feedback.
• Optimize our existing cloud footprint by reducing spending and implementing cost-governance, ensuring that our newly observable pipelines are also financially efficient.
• Champion the use of AI assisted development with GitHub Copilot.

• 8+ years of overall experience building, scaling, and maintaining complex systems.
• 4+ years of experience building Data Platforms or complex Cloud architectures (GCP strongly preferred).
• 3+ years of deep, hands-on experience setting up enterprise monitoring-specifically Dynatrace-to track data pipeline health, data quality, workload and infrastructure performance.
• 3+ years of writing, refactoring, and managing stateful deployments with Terraform in production. * Expert in creating GitHub Actions and Workflows.
• Deep expertise in GCP (BigQuery, GCS, IAM, Cloud Run, Networking) along with Linux, Docker, and Bash scripting.
• Certifications in Google Cloud Platform are nice to have.
• Experience managing JVM applications (ideally Spark).

Process & Mindset

• Team player with experience driving technical decisions and mentoring mid-level engineers.
• Know when to reach out to other teams for help/consultation.
• Maintain high coding standards, be proactive at code reviews, ensuring future-proof quality.
• End to end ownership and support of created solutions.
• Excellent communication skills (spoken and written English)