Cloud Efficiency Engineer - GCP

Cloud Efficiency Engineer (GCP) Location: London, ( Occasional Office Visits ) ** PLEASE NOTE SPONSORSHIP IS NOT PROVIDED - MUST HAVE FULL RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK ** Role Summary We're looking for a cloud efficiency engineer to join the team. This is a hands-on specialist role: you'll bring deep expertise in cloud infrastructure cost optimization and apply it directly to implementing multi-million-dollar efficiency gains across one of the world's largest Kubernetes fleets. You'll work alongside senior engineers and a data scientist who identify and prioritise opportunities. Your job is to take those opportunities and make them real - digging into GCP configurations, workload profiles, and Kubernetes resource settings to implement changes that reduce cost while maintaining performance and reliability. You bring the specialist knowledge that makes the difference between a safe 30% rightsizing and an aggressive one that pages on-call at 3am. The Opportunity This environment runs at a massive scale; the team was formed to capture systematic efficiency gains that individual teams miss. The pipeline extends to JVM tuning, autoscaling efficiency, workload placement, and storage optimization. This role exists because cloud cost optimization at this scale requires specialist knowledge: understanding GCP pricing models, machine type trade-offs, committed use discount strategies, and how Kubernetes scheduling interacts ...