GCP Cloud Engineer
GCP / Kubernetes DevOps Engineer (Contract)
£450+ per day (DOE) | 12 months | Outside IR35 | London (3 days onsite)
We are delivering a major secure government cloud transformation and are looking for a highly experienced Cloud DevOps / Platform Engineer to help build and run a secure private cloud environment from the ground up .
This is a hands-on engineering role in a highly secure, air-gapped environment where reliability, security, and automation are critical.
What You'll Do- Build and operate infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Strong hands-on engineering with Kubernetes (GKE) - essential
- Use Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar)
- Work in secure, disconnected / air-gapped environments
- Support monitoring, logging, and system reliability (SRE practices)
- Improve performance, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Strong commercial experience in GCP DevOps / Platform engineering
- Expert Kubernetes (GKE) experience - essential
- Strong Terraform / IaC experience
- Experience in secure or regulated environments
- Comfortable working in air-gapped / no-internet environments
- Good knowledge of IAM, networking, and container security
- Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) experience
- FinOps / cost optimisation experience
- Google Cloud certifications
- AI-assisted ops experience
- Existing DV clearance
- Active SC clearance (minimum)
- Willingness to go through DV clearance
- Right to work in the UK
- 3 days per week onsite in London -
If this sounds a good fit for you p;ease send your updated CV a
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