Senior GCP Engineer

Position: Senior GCP Engineer

Location: Manchester (onsite twice a week)

Salary: £85,000-£95,000 + benefits & Bonus

Ready to build cloud infrastructure the right way, automated, scalable, secure, and engineered, not "clicked together"?

This is a role for a GCP-driven engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a platform team that genuinely does DevOps rather than just talk about it.

The Opportunity:

Join a cross-functional engineering group delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. You'll shape cloud products, design reusable IaC patterns, and build automation that removes toil for dozens of teams across the business.

This isn't a support role. It's hands-on engineering with room to influence standards, architecture, and tooling across a huge GCP estate.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Engineering GCP infrastructure products using Terraform & Terraform Cloud.
• Designing reusable IaC modules, refactoring legacy configs, improving state management.
• Building automation, tooling and workflows in Python.
• Developing secure, scalable GCP landing zones with org policies, policy-as-code (OPA/Sentinel), guardrails, and zero-trust principles.
• Working deeply with GKE, containers, Istio, cluster ops, and cloud-native networking.
• Integrating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness) to automate everything from builds to deployments.
• Driving cloud adoption and best practice across feature teams.

What You Bring:

• Strong GCP cloud engineering background with a DevOps mindset.
• Terraform expertise (modules, state, workspaces, enterprise patterns).
• Solid Python scripting for tooling and automation.
• GKE, service mesh, containerisation & cluster management experience.
• Experience implementing org-level governance, security, and policy-as-code.
• Certifications in GCP and Terraform are a big plus.

Nice to Have:

• SME-level GCP knowledge or consulting experience.
• Experience influencing architecture, design, and DevOps strategy.
• Familiarity with IDE-style engineering platforms (e.g., Backstage).

Why This Role?

• A genuinely modern GCP environment, not a half-migrated legacy swamp.
• Real engineering autonomy and the chance to shape cloud platforms at scale.
• Backed by a major UK organisation with huge learning, career and technical development opportunities.
• A culture that values DevOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence.