Overview
GCP Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid (60% office 40% remote - 3 days on site is mandatory) Sheffield (preferred) also open to Birmingham and Edinburgh
Duration: 31/12/2025
Salary: £550
Responsibilities
* Deploying, configuring and securing backend REST API services using CSP native services.
* Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code.
* Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls.
* Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
* Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
* Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
Essential Skills
* Demonstrable experience of:
* Public Cloud.
* Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
* Relational and NoSQL databases.
* Integration services such as messaging and streams.
* Building RESTful API Services.
* Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
* Microservices and distributed tracing.
* Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
* Automation scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
* Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
* Experience working within an Agile environment.
* A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
* The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
* Good non-functional testing experience.
Desirable Skills
* Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
* Programming experience in Python and Golang.
* GCP certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer / GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer)
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