GCP Test Engineer

OUTSIDE IR35 CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY!

GCP Test Engineer

Rate: £400-£450 per day

Duration: 18 months

Location: London (hybrid/remote)

Location: Hybrid, London

Contract: Temporary, fixed-term, outside IR35

You must either hold UK Security Clearance (SC) or be willing to obtain it before starting. You must also be willing to undergo Developed Vetting (DV).

Please do not apply if you won't be able to obtain security clearance!

We’re looking for a GCP Test Engineer to support testing and assurance across secure, cloud-based platforms and services.

You’ll work with platform engineers, architects, DevSecOps and security teams to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, compliant and ready for deployment in highly regulated environments.

What you’ll be doing:

Test and assure cloud platforms, infrastructure and services

Validate integrations, deployments and platform configurations

Support automated testing and CI/CD quality practices

Carry out integration, resilience and operational readiness testing

Investigate defects and support troubleshooting

Contribute to testing standards, tools and quality practicesWhat you’ll bring:

Experience as a Test Engineer, Cloud Test Engineer, Platform Test Engineer or similar

Experience testing cloud-hosted or cloud-native platforms and services

Experience in secure, regulated or government environments

Understanding of Agile, DevOps and DevSecOps

Experience with infrastructure, integration and platform testing

Experience with cloud platforms, ideally GCP

Understanding of Kubernetes, containers and Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform

Familiarity with CI/CD and automated testing

Experience across functional, integration, regression and non-functional testing

Familiarity with API/service testing

Ability to analyse defects, risks and quality issuesDesirable:

Google Distributed Cloud or private/air-gapped cloud experience

Government, defence or highly regulated sector experience

Python or other scripting/automation experience

Kubernetes platform testing

Performance, resilience or security testing experience

Google Cloud or testing certifications

Existing UK Government Security Clearance (SC or above)