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GCP DevOps Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom Contract Posted 4 days ago

Job Description-


We are seeking a highly skilled GCP DevOps Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The engineer will be responsible for building secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure, enabling CI/CD pipelines, supporting Kubernetes platforms, and driving DevSecOps best practices.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in GCP Services, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Monitoring, Security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).



Key Responsibilities

Cloud Platform Engineering

  • Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP.
  • Provision and manage resources using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Configure and maintain:
  • GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
  • Compute Engine
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Load Balancers
  • VPC Networks
  • Cloud DNS
  • Cloud SQL
  • IAM & Service Accounts
  • Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs.

Kubernetes & Containerization

  • Deploy and manage containerized applications on GKE.
  • Create and maintain Helm Charts.
  • Implement:
  • Auto-scaling
  • Node pool management
  • Rolling deployments
  • Blue-Green deployments
  • Canary deployments
  • Troubleshoot cluster, networking, and application issues.

CI/CD & Release Automation

  • Build and support CI/CD pipelines using:
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • Cloud Build
  • Harness
  • Implement automated:
  • Build
  • Test
  • Security Scanning
  • Deployments
  • Rollback strategies
  • Drive deployment standardization and release governance.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Develop reusable Terraform modules.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning.
  • Maintain environment consistency across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production.

Monitoring & Observability

  • Configure monitoring using:
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud Logging
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk
  • Establish dashboards, alerts, and SLAs/SLOs.
  • Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for incidents.


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