Senior GCP DevOps Engineer
17 days ago
Leeds
Senior GCP Engineer Location: Leeds (onsite twice a week) 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 DevOps rather than just talk about it. The Opportunity: Join a cross-functional engineering group delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. You’ll shape cloud products, design reusable IaC patterns, and build automation that removes toil for dozens of teams across the business. This isn’t a support role. It’s hands-on engineering with room to influence standards, architecture, and tooling across a huge GCP estate. What You’ll Be Doing: • 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 (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness) to automate everything from builds to deployments., • Driving cloud adoption and best practice across feature teams. What You Bring: • Strong GCP cloud engineering background with a DevOps mindset., • Terraform expertise (modules, state, workspaces, 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 DevOps 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 at scale., • Backed by a major UK organisation with huge learning, career and technical development opportunities., • A culture that values DevOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence.