Salary: £85,000 - 95,000 per year Requirements: Strong GCP cloud engineering background with a DevOps mindset. Terraform expertise (modules, state, workspaces, enterprise patterns). Solid Python scripting for tooling and automation. GKE, service mesh, containerisation & cluster management experience. Experience implementing org-level governance, security, and policy-as-code. Certifications in GCP and Terraform are a big plus. SME-level GCP knowledge or consulting experience is nice to have. Experience influencing architecture, design, and DevOps strategy is nice to have. Familiarity with IDE-style engineering platforms (e.g., Backstage) is nice to have. Responsibilities: Engineering GCP infrastructure products using Terraform & Terraform Cloud. Designing reusable IaC modules, refactoring legacy configs, improving state management. Building automation, tooling and workflows in Python. Developing secure, scalable GCP landing zones with org policies, policy-as-code (OPA/Sentinel), guardrails, and zero-trust principles. Working deeply with GKE, containers, Istio, cluster ops, and cloud-native networking. Integrating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness) to automate everything from builds to deployments. Driving cloud adoption and best practice across feature teams. Technologies: CI/CD Cloud DevOps GCP GitHub Istio Jenkins Python Security Terraform Support More: We are a cross-functional engineering group located in Manchester, focused on delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. We offer a genuine modern GCP environment, real engineering autonomy, and opportunities for career and technical development. We value DevOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence, and our culture is supported by a major UK organization, allowing you to influence standards and architecture across our GCP estate. last updated 8 week of 2026