GCP Devops Engineer

Project overview

The Role: GCP Devops Engineer

Responsibilities

CI/CD & Release Automation

Containerisation & Kubernetes

Monitoring & Observability

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate application and data platform deployments.
• Manage source control integration and release orchestration.
• Improve deployment frequency, reliability, and rollback mechanisms.
• Deploy and manage workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Manage containerised applications using Docker.
• Implement Kubernetes security, scaling, monitoring, and cluster lifecycle management.
• Optimise resource utilisation and application performance.
• Configure and maintain Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Implement application health checks, dashboards, and operational reporting.
• Define SLI/SLO metrics and establish reliability practices.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Maintain platform availability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Automate routine operational tasks and infrastructure maintenance.
• Perform performance tuning and cloud cost optimisation.
• Support production deployments and critical incident management.

Requirements

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

• GCP Core Services
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Compute Engine
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud SQL
• Terraform
• Git
• Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to work in global and multi-vendor environments.
• Experience delivering solutions for data modernisation and cloud migration initiatives.

Project details

London, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: 2 Days Onsite in a week

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled GCP DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and manage enterprise-grade cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, cloud security, monitoring, and platform reliability. The role requires close collaboration with Data Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, and Operations teams to ensure secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions.

• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: London, GB