Senior GCP Network Engineer

Edinburgh
3 weeks ago
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A leading UK financial services organisation is looking for a Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer specialising in Google Cloud Platform networking to join a highly skilled engineering team working on a large-scale cloud transformation programme.

You'll play a key role in building and maintaining secure, automated cloud networking infrastructure that enables development teams to deliver modern, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

Design and manage enterprise-scale GCP networking infrastructure

Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Support secure, reliable networking across cloud and hybrid environments

Troubleshoot complex networking issues and improve platform reliability

Collaborate with engineers and architects to deliver scalable solutions

Key Skills

Strong hands-on experience with GCP networking (VPC, Load Balancers, DNS, Firewalls, Cloud Interconnect, VPC Peering)

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

DevOps tooling such as Git, GitHub or Terraform Cloud

Experience working in enterprise cloud environments

Desirable

Hybrid cloud networking experience

Python or Bash automation

Monitoring tools such as Google Cloud Monitoring or Dynatrace

GCP certifications

For this role, you'll receive a very competitive benefits package including non-contributory pension, discretionery bonus and a comprehensive holiday package. The role requires 2 days onsite a week and can be based from Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol or Halifax.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major cloud engineering programme and help shape the next generation of cloud infrastructure

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