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SRE - GCP

Glasgow
4 weeks ago
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SRE - GCP

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced GCP SRE, to be working with one of the world's leading financial institutions.

You will be working to implement new features, deal with user requests and reduce repeatable tasks allowing more time for strategic initiatives. In particular you will be a major driver of their push to Google Cloud which is due to go live in 2026.

What will you be doing?

  • You will be responsible for delivering Vault services to customers running in Google Cloud

  • You will work with the Vault squad supporting Engineering & Operational tasks, ranging from service delivery, automation, DevOps tasks and supporting an on-call rota

  • Working with the Vault squad & wider Technology stakeholders, you will support the continuous improvement of their services through the development of automation scripting and effective observability solutions.

  • Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.

  • Working with Technology teams, you will onboard new tools to support business needs and integrate with the internal ecosystem.

  • Participate in design discissions, code reviews and the various Agile ceremonies to help produce the best product possible

  • You will deliver knowledge sharing across their Vault squad & Data Protection chapter, providing documentation, presentations and internal postings

    Experience required

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes

  • 5+ years of experience in implementing technological solutions, managing applications and services in an enterprise environment

  • Solid knowledge and hands-on experience of IaaC with Terraform

  • Solid knowledge and hands-on experience of Helm

  • Solid knowledge and hands-on experience of scripting in Go (Golang)

  • Solid communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

    Skills that will help you in the role:

  • Experience with HashiCorp Vault

  • Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD

  • GCP certifications such as Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer

  • Hashicorp certifications such as Terraform Associate, Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional, Vault Associate, or Vault Operations Professional

  • Experience migrating application workloads into GCP and/or GKE

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