GCP Cloud Engineer

Role: GCP Cloud Engineer

Contract- 6 months with possible extension

Location- Sheffield or Birmingham or Edinburgh (3 days a week)

Key Accountabilities:

Responsibilities will include:

• Deploying, configuring and securing Back End REST API services using CSP native services.
• Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls.
• Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
• Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Qualifications and experience:

The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• A background in Cloud Engineering with infrastructure experience.
• Over 5 years of development experience, focusing on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, including CSP native services, networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL) and cost optimization.
• Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is advantageous.
• Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
• A strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information effectively to diverse audiences.
• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.

Essential Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of:
• Public Cloud.
• Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
• Linux.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Integration services such as messaging and streams.
• Building RESTful API Services.
• Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
• Microservices and distributed tracing.
• Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (eg, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Automation Scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).

• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.
• A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
• The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
• Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Programming experience in Python and Golang.
• GCP certifications (eg, Google Cloud Engineer/GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer).