GCP Systems Engineer

GCP Systems Engineer
Glasgow / Bournemouth / London
Start Date - September
4 Month Contract - Inside IR35

GCP Systems Engineer urgently needed to support the delivery and operation of large-scale, cloud-native platforms within a leading financial services environment. This is a highly technical, hands-on role focused on GCP, Kubernetes, automation and platform engineering.

You'll design, build and operate resilient cloud services, develop Kubernetes-based solutions and drive engineering best practices across a large-scale cloud environment.

• Design, build and operate secure, scalable GCP cloud-native services
• Engineer and maintain Kubernetes platforms, Operators and Custom Resources (CRDs)
• Develop custom controllers, reconciliation loops, admission controllers and webhooks
• Build automation and tooling using Golang or Python
• Implement and improve CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Monitor and improve platform reliability, performance, observability and resilience
• Troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues
• Develop reusable engineering standards and automation across teams
• Collaborate with engineering teams on cloud platform and infrastructure initiatives
• Support cloud security, compliance, capacity planning and operational excellence

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Advanced Kubernetes platform engineering experience
• Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators and CRDs
• Strong Golang or Python development experience
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers, reconciliation loops, webhooks and API machinery
• Strong Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD experience, ideally Terraform
• Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, security and resilience
• Proven experience operating enterprise-scale production environments
• Strong understanding of software engineering and SDLC practices
• Financial services experience highly desirable
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Copilot or Claude Code advantageous

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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