GCP Architect - 6 months - London - £800/day

Project overview

GCP Architect - 6 months - London - £800/day

We are seeking an experienced GCP Architect to join a large enterprise financial services technology platforms team on a 6-month contract based in London. The successful candidate will deliver and operate GCP foundational services and applications, working alongside Embedded Google architects to implement a recent architecture review and enable the next phase of cloud deployment at scale.

Responsibilities

What You Will Ideally Bring:

Contract Details

• Deliver and implement foundational services in GCP landing zones alongside Embedded Google architects
• Design and build Terraform-driven infrastructure across the GCP org hierarchy, including folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking
• Build and own CI/CD pipelines (via GitHub Actions) that deliver infrastructure and policy as code
• Own ongoing implementation of changes identified in the recent GCP architecture review
• Manage Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls to connect and secure GCP projects
• Build and deploy workloads across GKE, general compute, and Cloud Run
• Collaborate with the Network team on landing zone standards and Palo Alto Firewall integration
• Proficient, hands-on GCP Architecture experience across Shared VPC, Compute, GKE, and Cloud Run
• GCP Architect Professional certified; must be GCP-first, not AWS-only
• Expert-level Terraform/Infrastructure as Code experience, covering org hierarchy, folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking
• Expert-level CI/CD pipeline engineering, able to build and own pipelines (GitHub Actions) rather than just consume them
• Proficient experience with landing zone delivery and runbook production
• self-directed, comfortable implementing architecture-review changes and handing services to operations
• Strong working experience of advanced GCP networking constructs (VPC Service Controls, Network Connectivity Center, Private Service Connect) desirable
• AWS experience alongside GCP desirable, given the wider estate is mainly AWS
• Experience with GCP Data & Analytics and/or AI/ML services (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataplex) at platform enablement level desirable
• Duration: 6 months
• Day Rate: £800 per day
• Determination: Inside IR35
• Location: Hybrid, 1 day per week onsite, London
• Start Date: ASAP

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 100-100 EUR/h