Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer
6 month contract initially.
Remote or one of Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, London with maximum 2 days per week onsite.
Base Pay Range
Rate: £525-£550 p/d (via Umbrella company).
Key Responsibilities
* Bring in GCP Cloud Infra and Engineering skills to curate and engineer Cloud Resources and make their Cloud Adoption journey seamless.
* Identify areas of improvement and innovation harnessing your Google Cloud competencies to make services more secure, reliable, self‑serve and autonomous.
* Hands‑on GCP Cloud Engineering with strong GCP DevOps and CI/CD background.
* Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and proven experience in Terraform / Terraform Cloud.
* Strong hands‑on experience on curating GCP Cloud Products and Infrastructure.
* Build automated workflows around the products using Python scripting.
* Proficient in Google Kubernetes (GKE), Container, Istio Service Mesh, Cluster Management.
* Audit and restructure existing Terraform modules and state files.
* Migrate legacy configurations into unified, reusable templates.
* Implement security‑focused Terraform modules with embedded guardrails and policy‑as‑code (e.g., Sentinel, OPA).
* Enforce GCP Org Policies with constraints like IP restrictions, network policy, Access Management, encryption, and region control for secure, compliant cloud governance.
* CI/CD integration – implement automation pipelines for infrastructure‑as‑code deployments.
Key Skills & Experience
* GCP Cloud Engineering, GCP DevOps & Infrastructure.
* Terraform / Terraform Cloud (IaC).
* Python scripting.
* Harness, Jenkins, GitHub.
* Google Kubernetes (GKE), Container, Istio Service Mesh.
* GCP Organisation Policy, Custom Org Policy (Policy as a Code) – Sentinel/OPA.
* GCP and Terraform Certified.
* Good to have experience working in an IDE Platform for Cloud Engineering (e.g., Backstage).
Seniority Level
Senior
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
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