GCP Cloud Engineer

Sheffield

6 months ago

Applications closed

GCP Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid (60% office 40% remote - 3 days on site is mandatory) Sheffield (preferred) also open to Birmingham and Edinburgh
Duration: 31/12/2025
£550

The client seeks a driven and seasoned GCP Cloud Engineer to aid in the development of services on Public Cloud Platforms. Utilise your Cloud Engineering expertise and DevOps skills across GCP to deploy and configure robust backend services, automate infrastructure, and employ CSP native services. This role offers the chance to work on impactful systems within a secure, high-availability setting at a leading global financial institution.

Key Accountabilities

Deploying, configuring and securing backend REST API services using CSP native services.
Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code.
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls.
Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Essential Skills
Demonstrable experience of:
Public Cloud.
Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.

Relational and NoSQL databases.
Integration services such as messaging and streams.
Building RESTful API Services.
Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
Microservices and distributed tracing.
Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
Automation scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
Experience working within an Agile environment.
A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills
Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
Programming experience in Python and Golang.
GCP certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer / GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer)

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