GCP Cloud Infra Engineer

Role: Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Position: Full-time

Are you passionate about Google Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps excellence, and building scalable Golang-based microservices?

We’re excited to share an opportunity for a highly skilled Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer to join a leading organisation delivering innovative cloud solutions at enterprise scale.

About the Company

Our client is a global technology and transformation partner supporting some of the most recognised brands in the UK and worldwide. They deliver impactful, large-scale engineering and cloud modernisation initiatives, creating real value for customers, communities, and businesses.

You’ll join a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where you will:

• Build strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
• Access extensive learning and professional development opportunities
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to bring next-generation products and cloud platforms to life

The Role

As a Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer, you will play a key part in shaping Google Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering capabilities. You will help deliver secure, compliant, and efficient cloud services that enable smooth GCP adoption across the enterprise.

You’ll operate as part of a cross-disciplinary feature team while also contributing as a highly experienced member of the wider cloud engineering community.

This role involves providing modern DevOps tooling, building scalable cloud products using Infrastructure-as-Code, and supporting engineering teams in delivering secure, reliable, enterprise-grade GCP environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on GCP Cloud Engineering with strong DevOps and CI/CD expertise
• Deep experience with IaC and Terraform/Terraform Cloud
• Designing and curating reusable GCP Cloud Products and Infrastructure
• Building automated workflows using Python scripting
• Strong knowledge of GKE, containers, Istio Service Mesh, and cluster management
• Auditing and restructuring Terraform modules and state files
• Migrating legacy configurations into unified, reusable templates
• Implementing secure Terraform modules with embedded guardrails and policy-as-code (Sentinel, OPA)
• Enforcing GCP Organisation Policies (IAM, network constraints, encryption, region policies, IP restrictions)
• CI/CD integration and automation pipeline development for IaC deployments

Your Profile

Essential Skills & Experience:

• GCP Cloud Engineering, DevOps & Infrastructure
• Terraform / Terraform Cloud (IaC)
• Python scripting
• Experience with Harness, Jenkins, GitHub
• GKE, Containers, Istio Service Mesh
• GCP Org Policy & Policy-as-Code (Sentinel / OPA)
• GCP and Terraform certifications
• Experience working within an IDE platform for cloud engineering (e.g., Backstage)

Desirable:

• Experience as a GCP Cloud SME
• Experience providing technical consulting on design, architecture, or cloud strategy

Rewards & Benefits

Competitive salary package including pension, healthcare, life assurance, laptop, phone, extensive training access, and additional corporate benefits.

You’ll also have access to wellness initiatives, community events, and social networks within the organisation.

Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing

The organisation is committed to accessibility, equality, and fostering an environment where everyone can thrive.

They champion diversity across race, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and more.

They are a disability-inclusive employer and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

If you're ready to shape enterprise-grade cloud solutions and lead innovation on Google Cloud at scale, we’d love to hear from you