DevOps Engineer / GCP SRE Engineer (with Data Engineering Exposure)

Location: Bristol (Hybrid)

Employer: Global Technology Consultancy

We are looking for an experienced GCP Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong cloud engineering and DevOps expertise. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure on Google Cloud, while also supporting data engineering teams with critical GCP data products.

• Deliver GCP cloud engineering services across Data, Database, and Storage platforms.
• Curate, provision, and build GCP infrastructure and product resources using Terraform (IaC).
• Implement automation, policies, and guardrails to ensure platform readiness and compliance.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness.
• Manage and operate Kubernetes clusters (GKE / OpenShift) for container orchestration.
• Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with data teams to optimise workloads across BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and related services.
• Provide incident support and conduct detailed root cause analysis for platform and product issues.

• GCP Cloud engineering
• Terraform (IaC)
• Jenkins, GitHub, Harness
• CI/CD pipeline design & automation
• Kubernetes (GKE / OpenShift)
• Python scripting for automation

• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (e.g., Backstage IDP)
• Understanding of GCP Data Products:
• Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Vertex AI

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps roles with strong cloud engineering background.
• Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Exposure to private cloud environments and OpenShift preferred.

• Opportunity to work across modern GCP cloud and data platforms.
• Influence platform engineering, automation, and reliability best practices.
• Collaborative engineering culture and exposure to modern DevOps tooling.