GCP DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer

Location: Manchester | Hybrid - 2 Days per week office
Working pattern: Full-time
Contract
Rate - £570 Inside IR35
Availability - Immediate needed
We are recruiting a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer for a major enterprise client, helping build and evolve secure, resilient cloud platforms and improve the developer experience.
This is a hands-on opportunity spanning Kubernetes engineering, infrastructure automation, continuous delivery, observability and platform security. You will work closely with engineering, architecture, security and operations teams to enable faster, safer and more consistent software delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms using GKE and OpenShift, covering cluster lifecycle management, networking, ingress and workload security.
• Develop reusable platform services and standard delivery patterns, enabling developer self-service through Backstage and Internal Developer Platform capabilities.
• Build secure, repeatable cloud environments and reusable infrastructure modules using Terraform.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness and Jenkins, incorporating release controls and consistent deployment practices.
• Implement end-to-end observability through Dynatrace, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting and service health monitoring.
• Define service level indicators and objectives, and automate runbooks, remediation and routine operational activities.
• Engineer service connectivity using Istio Service Mesh, including traffic management, ingress and egress controls, and policy enforcement.
• Manage secrets, certificates and workload identity using HashiCorp Vault and automated certificate lifecycle processes.
• Embed least-privilege access, secure configuration, resilience and auditability into platform engineering practices.
• Support platform adoption, coach colleagues and contribute to shared engineering standards.

Essential skills and experience

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering experience, including OpenShift. GKE experience is preferred.
• Strong Terraform skills, including reusable modules and infrastructure automation.
• Cloud platform engineering experience, preferably with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing and maintaining delivery pipelines using Harness and Jenkins.
• Experience with Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including developer self-service and reusable delivery patterns.
• Strong Dynatrace experience across monitoring, telemetry, dashboards and alerting.
• Understanding of SLI/SLO practices and operational runbook automation.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM and secure platform configuration.
• Experience with Istio Service Mesh, service connectivity, traffic management and network security principles.
• Confident using GitHub/Git, with strong troubleshooting, automation and production support skills.
• Ability to collaborate across technical teams and communicate engineering practices clearly.

Desirable experience

• Operating platforms within a large, regulated enterprise.
• Working across multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Scripting and automation using Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Reliability engineering, incident management, capacity planning and resilience.
• Using cost telemetry to understand and improve platform efficiency.

What you will deliver

• Secure, repeatable and supportable platform services backed by clear engineering standards.
• Faster and safer software releases through automation and reusable delivery patterns.
• An improved developer experience through accessible self-service capabilities.
• Greater service reliability through measurable objectives, actionable observability and automated operations.

Interested? Please get in touch with your CV to discuss the opportunity.