DevOps Engineer (GCP focused)

We are seeking a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our cloud infrastructure team. Reporting to the Head of Cloud Infrastructure, you will play a key role in the day-to-day operation, support and maintenance of our infrastructure and systems across development, testing and production environments, hosted on GCP and co-location data centres.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced DevOps professional to contribute to the evolution of our products and services, working within a collaborative team that values technical excellence, continuous improvement and a proactive approach to cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, plan and implement infrastructure change as part of a DevOps team, contributing to the evolution of our products and services
  • Maintain secure and robust cloud-based networks and infrastructure using IaC methods (Terraform), with strong knowledge of networking principles including routing, DNS, load balancing and security controls
  • Manage containerised workloads using Kubernetes (GKE), ensuring high availability, scalability and efficient resource utilisation
  • Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test and deployment workflows across environments
  • Implement and manage systems monitoring, proactively respond to alerts, and participate in on-call out-of-hours support on a rotational basis
  • Participate in capacity planning, performance monitoring, disaster recovery testing and regular security audits

Skills Knowledge & Expertise

  • Several years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) core services
  • Good working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Experience with Windows Server, Linux (Ubuntu) administration
  • Strong understanding of cloud security principles including IAM, RBAC, secrets management and network security controls
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus/Grafana or Google Cloud Monitoring
  • Good working knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and PowerShell/Linux scripting.

Job Details

Company
SearchWorks
Location
England, United Kingdom
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