Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Platform Provisioning Engineer Glasgow
A leading Professional Services company is seeking a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Platform Provisioning Engineer on a contract basis to work on a project with a leading financial client.
You will be needed onsite on Glasgow 3 times per week.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Proven experience designing, implementing and managing platform provisioning solutions within GCP environments.
- Strong experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
- Strong Python Scripting and automation experience.
- Experience with Git and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience implementing automated infrastructure deployment and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using GitHub Co-Pilot and Claude Code to optimise DevOps and software development workflows.
- Strong ability to work within a Shell environment (eg Bash).
- Demonstrated ability to drive and implement automation initiatives.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerisation technologies.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Platform Provisioning Engineer to join a leading global financial services organisation on a major cloud transformation programme.
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a next-generation multi-cloud engineering team responsible for building and evolving an enterprise cloud platform spanning Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure and on-premise environments.
The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing and managing cloud platform provisioning solutions with a primary focus on GCP, while driving infrastructure automation, Kubernetes platform engineering, and AI-assisted DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain platform provisioning and management solutions primarily within Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with the ability to work across AWS and Azure environments.
- Design, provision and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Build, deploy and manage Kubernetes and containerised platforms to support resilient cloud-native applications.
- Develop automation solutions using Python and Terraform to streamline infrastructure provisioning and operational processes.
- Implement and enhance automated deployment pipelines for cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Leverage AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Co-Pilot and Claude Code to improve development efficiency and code quality.
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual intervention and improve platform consistency and reliability.
- Manage and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure using Shell Scripting and command-line tools (eg Bash).
- Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture and platform teams to integrate provisioning solutions across the wider cloud platform.
- Contribute to the continuous development and evolution of a large-scale enterprise multi-cloud platform.
- Ensure cloud environments adhere to security, compliance and operational best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, reliability, scalability and developer experience.