Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title

Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer

£92,701 - £109,060

Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Halifax

Full‑time

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

• Designing, engineering and optimising enterprise‑scale GCP infrastructure and networking
• Developing and reviewing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / Terraform Cloud
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub, Jenkins and Harness
• Developing automation using Python, Bash and/or Groovy
• Owning cloud services through their full lifecycle (design, build, run, improve)
• Performing code reviews and helping drive engineering quality and consistency
• Working collaboratively with architecture, security and software engineering teams
• Providing BAU operational support
  , including incident and problem management
• Mentoring other engineers and supporting planning and technical decision‑making

• 5+ years’ experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments
• 5+ years’ experience designing and supporting cloud networking
  , including: VPC, Interconnect, Firewalls, DNS, NAT, IAM and VPC‑SC
• 3+ years’ experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• 3+ years’ experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices
• Experience working with Kubernetes / GKE
• Experience working in agile delivery environments (Scrum / Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, security and automation

• Experience working with large‑scale or hybrid GCP environments
• Experience with policy as code
• Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring
• Google Cloud Professional certifications

We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies