Job Specifications
Title: Senior GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Contract)
Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, London
Work model: Hybrid (2 days per week on-site)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start Date: 1st October
Rate: £510/day (outside IR35 status not specified)
About the Role
A leading organisation is seeking Senior GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineers to join its Public Cloud Platform function. You will play a key role in enabling secure, compliant, scalable and efficient GCP adoption across the business. This is a hands-on engineering role delivering modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and platform capabilities within a cross-functional engineering team.
This position involves building and curating GCP cloud products through Infrastructure-as-Code, implementing automation pipelines, and shaping engineering best practices. If you are passionate about high-quality engineering, modern DevOps, and cloud innovation, this is an excellent opportunity to contribute meaningful change.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver hands-on GCP cloud engineering with strong DevOps & CI/CD experience
Build, curate, and maintain GCP cloud infrastructure using Terraform / Terraform Cloud
Restructure and optimise Terraform modules, state management, and reusable templates
Implement secure, policy-driven infrastructure including guardrails, org policies, OPA/Sentinel
Build automation workflows and tools using Python
Work with GKE, containers, Istio and modern cluster management practices
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for IaC deployments
Contribute to engineering patterns, best practices and platform innovation
Essential Skills
Proven experience in GCP Cloud Engineering & Infra DevOps
Strong hands-on Terraform / Terraform Cloud experience
Python scripting for automation
Experience with Harness, Jenkins, GitHub (or similar CI/CD tools)
Strong background with GKE, containerisation, Istio service mesh
Knowledge of GCP Organisation Policy, Policy as Code (OPA/Sentinel)
Relevant GCP and Terraform certifications
Desirable Skills
Senior-level engineering background with advisory/consultative capability
Experience shaping cloud strategy, design and architectural best practices
Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills
Experience with internal developer platforms (e.g., Backstage)
Equality, Inclusion & Support
The hiring organisation is committed to diversity, inclusion, accessibility and ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants. If you need adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, support is available on request.
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