Job Description

GCP DevOps

400 GBP/day

6 Positions

Location Halifax, Bristol, or Edinburgh any one of these locations.- Hybrid working 2 to 3 Days/Week in the Office

GCP - DevOps JD ( GCP DCX Team)

Inscope Technology :

Google Cloud Platform infrastructure:

Compute Engine

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machines

Windows virtual machines

Local SSD

Persistent Disk

Cloud Networking

Cloud Logging

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Storage

Cloud Key Management

Cloud Secret Manager

Dynatrace

GitHub Enterprise

HashiCorp products, including Terraform and Packer

Jenkins

Backstage

Jira Cloud and Jira Align

Skillset Required :

Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities, with a focus on Google compute products and services.

Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform (minimum), Jenkins, and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins).

Networking & Security: Experience with GCP Cloud Armor, GCP Networking, and embedding secure-by-design controls from design to runtime.

Automation & Observability: Implementing actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil. Defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs.

Scripting & Tooling: Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, Harness, and Backstage is desirable.

Team Leadership, Collaboration & Mentoring: Ability to lead and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers, ensuring cross-team collaboration and mentoring.

Certifications: Relevant GCP certifications are desirable.

Scope of services

As an infrastructure engineering lead within the Public Cloud Services Compute (GCP DCX) team, the scope of service includes:

Design, Build, and Operate: Deliver and maintain secure, automated Google compute capabilities, supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows virtual machine and broader compute and networking products and configurations.

Platform Enablement: Enable product teams to deliver Google IaaS solutions at pace, leveraging reusable patterns and robust integration tools.

Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing Google resources, ensuring repeatability and compliance.

Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices and controls throughout the platform lifecycle, safeguarding organisational and customer data.

Performance & Reliability: Define, monitor, and operate against service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs), ensuring high availability, performance, and fault tolerance.

Continuous Improvement: Drive automation, observability, and performance tuning to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.

Collaboration: Work closely with architecture and feature teams to evolve the cloud roadmap and platform products, contributing to documentation and enablement.

Team Leadership, Mentoring & Standards: Lead, motivate, and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers and uphold engineering standards, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

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