Google DevOps Engineer

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer‑centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech‑driven world.

• Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross‑disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.
• Hybrid working – our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
• Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors – no project is ever the same
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring
• Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non‑technical training), plus gain certifications

As a Principal GCP Engineer, you'll be a true subject matter expert for delivering ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. We'll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.

• You’ll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions.
• Using your experience of the Dev Sec Ops  processes, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place.
• You will be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.
• Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role.
• You will help shape proposals (working with a bid team) and will leverage your technical skills to articulate appropriate solutions and may present these during a formal selection process.
• You’ll play an active role in technical account management.

As part of this role you will design ingenious GCP‑enabled solutions and services for brilliant clients across industry sectors. You will learn and grow – PA will support you to further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications. Expect a sleeves‑up, fully associated, and immersive working week. All our people are client facing and empowered to fulfil the best outcome for their clients.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have knowledge of the following products and deep experience in one or more of the categories:

• Cloud Functions, Cloud Run
• Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine
• VPCs, Service Perimeters
• Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Big Query, Firestore
• API Endpoints, Apigee, API…