Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer

Posted 15 October 2025
Salary Competitive
LocationLondon
Job type Contract
Discipline Software Engineering
Reference75213
Remote working Hybrid/Flexible

Job description

Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer

Start: ASAP
Location: 2 days per week in any of: London, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester
Pay: INSIDE IR35, paying up to £515 per day

We’re seeking an experienced Senior GCP Infra & DevOps Engineer to join a high-impact Public Cloud Platform team within a leading financial services organisation.


Key Responsibilities:
- Hands-on engineering of scalable GCP Cloud Products (IaaC)
- Build CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows using Terraform, Python, and Harness/Jenkins
- Design and implement secure, compliant infrastructure modules (Policy-as-Code, GCP Org Policies)
- Curate and optimise Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Istio Service Mesh, and containerised environments
- Audit and migrate legacy Terraform configs into reusable, modular templates
- Provide strategic input into platform design and architecture

Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong GCP Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps expertise
- Terraform / Terraform Cloud, IaC best practices
- Python scripting for automation
- GKE, Istio, Container Management
- GCP Org Policy, Policy-as-Code (Sentinel/OPA)
- CI/CD tooling: Harness, Jenkins, GitHub
- GCP and Terraform Certifications
- Comfortable advising on architecture, security, and platform strategy