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Senior GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Contract)

We’re recruiting a Senior GCP Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer for a long-term contract, working on large-scale enterprise Google Cloud platforms. This is a hands-on role focused on building secure, scalable and automated cloud infrastructure in a highly regulated environment.

You’ll work within a cloud platform engineering team, designing and delivering reusable Infrastructure as Code solutions and enabling teams to adopt GCP at scale.

Key Responsibilities

  • Hands-on GCP cloud infrastructure engineering

  • Design and build infrastructure using Terraform / Terraform Cloud

  • Develop and manage GKE (Kubernetes) platforms and containerised workloads

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, GitHub)

  • Automate infrastructure using Python scripting

  • Implement policy-as-code and cloud governance (Sentinel, OPA, GCP Org Policies)

  • Refactor and standardise Terraform modules and state files

  • Support secure, compliant cloud environments

    Essential Skills

  • Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise

  • Kubernetes / GKE and container platforms

  • CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Harness, GitHub)

  • Python scripting

  • Cloud security, governance and policy enforcement

    Desirable

  • Google Cloud or Terraform certifications

  • Platform engineering or internal developer platforms

  • Experience in regulated or enterprise environments

    This role suits a senior, hands-on cloud engineer who enjoys owning infrastructure, improving standards and working closely with engineering and platform teams.

    Apply now to discuss further details

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