Senior GCP Engineer

Senior GCP Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

Location: Manchester (2 days onsite)

Salary: Up to £95,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Ready to build cloud infrastructure properly automated, scalable, secure, and engineered (not manually stitched together)?

This is a high-impact role for a Senior GCP Engineer / Platform Engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a team that actually practices DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

The Opportunity

Join a cross-functional platform engineering team delivering enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure.

You ll design reusable cloud products, build automation, and define standards used by multiple engineering teams across a large-scale GCP estate.

This is hands-on engineering, not support, with real influence over architecture, tooling, and DevOps practices.

What You ll Be Doing

• Build and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform & Terraform Cloud
• Design and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules
• Improve Terraform state management, structure, and scalability
• Develop automation and tooling using Python
• Engineer secure GCP landing zones (org policies, guardrails, policy as code OPA/Sentinel, zero trust)
• Work with Kubernetes (GKE), containers, and service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio)
• Manage cluster operations, networking, and service-to-service communication
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness)
• Drive DevOps best practices and cloud adoption across teams

What You ll Bring

• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Solid background in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• Advanced Terraform skills (modules, workspaces, state management)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong Python scripting for automation
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / GKE, containerisation, and service mesh architectures
• Experience with cloud security, governance, and policy as code
• Relevant GCP or Terraform certifications (desirable)

Nice to Have

• SME-level GCP expertise or consulting background
• Experience influencing architecture and DevOps strategy
• Exposure to internal developer platforms (e.g. Backstage)

Why Join?

• Modern GCP-native environment (not legacy-heavy)
• High level of engineering autonomy and ownership
• Opportunity to shape cloud platforms at scale
• Backed by a major UK organisation with strong career progression
• Culture focused on DevOps, automation, and engineering excellence