GCP Cloud Engineer

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Overview

GCP Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid (60% office 40% remote - 3 days on site is mandatory) Sheffield (preferred) also open to Birmingham and Edinburgh

Duration: 31/12/2025

Salary: £550

Responsibilities

  • Deploying, configuring and securing backend REST API services using CSP native services.
  • Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code.
  • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls.
  • Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
  • Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
  • Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Essential Skills

  • Demonstrable experience of:
  • Public Cloud.
  • Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
  • Relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Integration services such as messaging and streams.
  • Building RESTful API Services.
  • Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
  • Microservices and distributed tracing.
  • Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Automation scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
  • Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
  • Experience working within an Agile environment.
  • A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
  • The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
  • Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
  • Programming experience in Python and Golang.
  • GCP certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer / GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer)
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Location:
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£80,000 - £100,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT & Technology

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