Job Title: Cloud Engineer - GCP, Python, Terraform
Location: Glasgow
Experience: 8-10 years
Role Summary
We are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, and Terraform to support a large-scale Google Cloud enablement initiative. This role will focus on building secure, scalable, and automated cloud foundations, enabling Vertex AI services, provisioning delivery environments, and implementing the target-state operating model across people, process, and technology.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for engineering reusable cloud infrastructure, automating platform provisioning, embedding governance and controls, and enabling high-quality, production-ready GCP services for enterprise AI/ML workloads.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and automate GCP infrastructure using Terraform and Python.
Provision and manage cloud environments required for the program, including Production.
Develop reusable infrastructure modules, templates, and engineering patterns for scalable GCP adoption.
Implement cloud services and platform capabilities required to enable Vertex AI APIs and enterprise AI/ML workloads.
Build automation for provisioning, configuration validation, compliance checks, operational workflows, and platform integrations.
Collaborate with architecture, security, network, IAM, and platform teams to deliver compliant and production-ready cloud solutions.
Translate control-plane and operating model requirements into deployable engineering assets and standards.
Support environment setup, service onboarding, policy alignment, and release readiness for GCP workloads.
Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, governance, and resiliency requirements, especially for regulated and HCD-sensitive workloads.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure lifecycle management, version control, and release automation.
Document platform designs, engineering standards, implementation patterns, and operational procedures.
Mentor team members and provide technical leadership on cloud engineering best practices.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Deep experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, module development, and environment provisioning.
Strong Python development/scripting experience for automation and tooling.
Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.
Familiarity with core GCP services such as networking, compute, IAM, storage, monitoring, and security services.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and automated deployment practices.
Understanding of cloud governance, policy enforcement, secure design, and operational controls.
Experience designing scalable, maintainable, and reusable cloud engineering solutions.
Strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and technical documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Vertex AI, AI/ML platform enablement, or API-based model integration.
Exposure to enterprise cloud control planes or multi-cloud platform engineering.
Familiarity with IAM, networking, security, and policy-as-code concepts.
Experience in regulated environments such as banking or financial services.
Knowledge of SRE, observability, and production support considerations for cloud platforms.
Experience driving platform standardization and engineering operating models.Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy