Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and developer-friendly public cloud platforms. You will work within a product-aligned, agile engineering team to enable engineering groups across the bank to deliver reliable digital solutions, data platforms, and emerging AI capabilities.

• Design, engineer and optimise enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and networking.
• Develop and review Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / Terraform Cloud.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub, Jenkins and Harness.
• Develop automation using Python, Bash and/or Groovy.
• Own cloud services through their full lifecycle (design, build, run, improve).
• Perform code reviews and help drive engineering quality and consistency.
• Collaborate with architecture, security and software engineering teams to ensure reliability and compliance.
• Provide BAU operational support, including incident and problem management.
• Mentor other engineers and support planning and technical decision-making.

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

• Experience with large-scale or hybrid GCP environments.
• Experience with policy as code.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring).
• Google Cloud professional certifications.

Locations:
Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Halifax.

Hours:

Full-time. Working pattern:
Hybrid with at least two days per week on-site, with adjustments available under our flexibility policy.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities. We may provide a range of benefits including pension contributions, bonus opportunities, and holiday allowances as applicable by policy.