Google Cloud Engineer
Role overview
As a GC Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and operating GCP-based infrastructure and platforms, with a strong emphasis on automation, security, and reliability in a highly regulated environment. You will work closely with architecture, security, and application teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions for government workloads.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on GCP.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and/ GDM.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerised workloads using Kubernetes (GKE) and Docker.
- Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar.
- Configure and manage core GCP services (e.g. Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, VPC networking, Load Balancing).
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging and related observability tools.
- Embed security and compliance into all stages of the delivery lifecycle, working within government or regulated environment standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, architects, security, product) to support application delivery and incident resolution.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Essential skills and experience
- Hands-on experience as a Cloud / DevOps / Platform Engineer working with GCP.
- Strong knowledge of core GCP services (compute, storage, networking, identity and access management).
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and configuration management.
- Experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and containerisation (Docker).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, network security, and compliance in regulated environments.
- Proven experience operating production workloads (monitoring, incident response, performance, cost optimisation).