Senior DevOps Engineer - GCP

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Senior Dev Ops Engineer - GCP

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Remote Salary: £85,000 - £95,000  benefits & Bonus Ready to build cloud infrastructure the right way, automated, scalable, secure, and engineered, not clicked together? This is a role for a GCP-driven engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a platform team that genuinely does Dev Ops rather than just talk about it. The Senior Dev Ops Engineer GCP Opportunity:
Join a cross-functional engineering group delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and Dev Ops capabilities. Youll shape cloud products, design reusable IaC patterns, and build automation that removes toil for dozens of teams across the business. This isnt a support role. Its hands-on engineering with room to influence standards, architecture, and tooling across a huge GCP estate. The Senior Dev Ops Engineer - GCP will be responsible for:
Engineering GCP infrastructure products using Terraform & Terraform Cloud. Designing reusable IaC modules, refactoring legacy configs, improving state management. Building automation, tooling and workflows in Python. Developing secure, scalable GCP landing zones with org policies, policy-as-code (OPA/Sentinel), guardrails, and zero-trust principles. Working deeply with GKE , containers, Istio, cluster ops, and cloud-native networking. Integrating CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub, Jenkins, Harness) to automate everything from builds to deployments.

Driving cloud adoption and best practice across feature teams. The skills/requirements for the Senior Dev Ops Engineer GCP:
Strong GCP cloud engineering background with a Dev Ops mindset. Terraform expertise (modules, state, work spaces, enterprise patterns). Solid Python scripting for tooling and automation. GKE, service mesh, containerisation & cluster management experience. Experience implementing org-level governance, security, and policy-as-code. Certifications in GCP and Terraform are a big plus. Nice to Have: SME-level GCP knowledge or consulting experience. Experience influencing architecture, design, and Dev Ops strategy.

Familiarity with IDE-style engineering platforms (e.g., Backstage).

Why This Role?

A genuinely modern GCP environment, not a half-migrated legacy swamp. Real engineering autonomy and the chance to shape cloud platforms ked by a major UK organisation with huge learning, career and technical development opportunities. A culture that values Dev Ops, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence.