DevOps Engineer; Foundational Platforms

As a Dev Ops Engineer specialising in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) within RWS’s Foundational Platforms team, you will play a hands‑on role in modernising and operating the infrastructure and delivery capabilities behind business‑critical financial applications. Working across a combination of legacy platforms and new cloud‑native solutions, you will help plan and execute safe migrations to GCP, improve reliability and scalability, and enable engineering teams to release software consistently and confidently.

You will build and maintain containerised environments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), support and migrate databases using Cloud SQL, and develop automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines using Git Hub and Terraform Cloud. Working closely with engineering, architecture, security, product and operations stakeholders across multiple teams, you will translate technical and business needs into secure, repeatable solutions, balancing modernisation with operational stability and business continuity.

This is an individual contributor role with significant technical ownership, collaboration and practical delivery responsibility. This is a Fixed‑term contract role.

Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable GCP environments that support business‑critical financial applications and services. Plan and deliver the migration of existing legacy applications, infrastructure and databases to GCP, taking a pragmatic, phased approach that minimises downtime, operational risk and disruption to business services. Deploy, configure and optimise containerised services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), improving workload resilience, scalability, maintainability and operational consistency.

Implement and support Google Cloud SQL environments, including database migrations, secure connectivity, backups, high availability, performance monitoring and controlled cutovers. Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines integrated with Git Hub, embedding continuous integration, automated builds, tests, quality checks and repeatable deployments throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud, including reusable modules, work spaces, managed state and controlled changes across environments.

Work alongside application engineering teams to modernise deployment approaches for legacy and modern applications, including .NET‑based workloads where relevant, and enable safe, incremental releases. Embed effective observability and operational practices through logging, metrics, alerting, troubleshooting and incident response to improve the reliability and performance of production services. Apply cloud security and governance standards, including identity and access management, networking, secrets management and appropriate controls for financial systems.

Collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, Quality and Operations to coordinate dependencies, resolve technical challenges and deliver shared platform improvements. Create clear technical documentation, deployment guidance and operational runbooks, share knowledge with teams and continuously improve automation, developer experience and delivery efficiency.

Proven hands‑on experience in a Dev Ops, Cloud or Platform Engineering role, delivering and supporting production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Practical experience migrating legacy or on‑premises applications and infrastructure into cloud environments, including migration planning, risk management, deployment transitions and service continuity. Strong experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes and Docker, including…