Job Description
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Senior GCP Engineer
Location: Leeds (onsite twice a week)
Salary: £85,000–£95,000 + benefits & Bonus
Ready to build cloud infrastructure the right way, automated, scalable, secure, and engineered, not “clicked together”?
This is a role for a GCP-driven engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a platform team that genuinely does DevOps rather than just talk about it.
The Opportunity:
Join a cross-functional engineering group delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. You’ll shape cloud products, design reusable IaC patterns, and build automation that removes toil for dozens of teams across the business.
This isn’t a support role. It’s hands-on engineering with room to influence standards, architecture, and tooling across a huge GCP estate.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* 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.
What You Bring:
* 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.
Nice to Have:
* SME-level GCP knowledge or consulting experience.
* Experience influencing architecture, design, and DevOps strategy.
* Familiarity with IDE-style engineering platforms (e.g., Backstage).
Why This Role?
* A genuinely modern GCP environment, not a half-migrated legacy swamp.
* Real engineering autonomy and the chance to shape cloud platforms at scale.
* Backed by a major UK organisation with huge learning, career and technical development opportunities. xsngvjr
* A culture that values DevOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence.