GCP Cloud Engineer

Xpertise Recruitment; England; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Xpertise Recruitment

Senior Recruitment Specialist at Xpertise Recruitment Ltd

Remote

Day Rate to be confirmed

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join a forward-thinking team, work with the latest technologies, and contribute to the success of our large-scale transformation programme. If you're passionate about DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation, we want to hear from you!

About the job

Who we are looking for

A Cloud Platform Engineer, who will help to set up our Google Cloud environments from scratch. You will have a passion for working on innovative initiatives and will make an immediate impact to the Business by bringing your own experience to a challenging but vibrant environment. By training and developing the existing team members, you will leave a lasting legacy at the organisation.

Why Join?

• Be the first Cloud Engineer in the business and be a key part of helping us set up our Cloud infrastructure.
• Transition legacy systems to a cutting-edge data platform.
• We will have both GCP for our data platform and Azure for business operational systems.
• Work with a highly motivated team to create a truly technology enabled business.

Your Role:

• Support the build and maintenance of Cloud platforms (predominately GCP)
• Taking accountability for the end-to-end delivery of public cloud pathfinder initiatives.
• Work across continuous integration, development, build, and deployment using automation and cloud technologies to support the growth of DevOps tooling.
• Build automation jobs for CI/CD development, build, and deployment of applications on Cloud.
• Support the build and maintenance of Cloud platforms and manage complex infrastructure environments.
• Collaborate across the team and our SaaS providers to identify improvements and drive them to resolution using cutting-edge CI/CD technologies.
• Support test environments, troubleshoot issues, and provide seamless DevOps delivery of infrastructure changes from development through to production.
• Working with and influencing others to advocate and lead technical aspects of our journey to the public cloud.
• Working with the team to embed knowledge and train existing team members so that they can continue the operational running of our cloud infrastructure.
• Supporting and consulting with stakeholders.
• Driving engineering excellence by fostering modern engineering practices.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience deploying and managing GCP infrastructure using Terraform or similar infrastructure as code services.
• A strong understanding of managing GCP security and secrets and applying best practices in Public Cloud security.
• Demonstrable experience deploying virtual machines in a Public Cloud environment as well as deploying Docker containers to Kubernetes clusters.
• A good understanding of CI/CD, preferably using GitHub Actions.
• Confident with YAML, Python and Shell Scripting.
• Monitoring skills for both performance monitoring and cost monitoring.
• Practical understanding of financial management in the cloud and FinOps concepts.
• Knowledge of micro-service architecture and APIs.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses, preferably with Google BigQuery.
• Experience with Active Directory (AD) Authentication and Integration.
• Experience of monitoring tools such as Splunk and Datadog.
• Understanding of code quality & security gates (e.g., Sonarqube).

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Media and IT Services and IT Consulting