GCP Devops Engineer
Licensed sponsor Manchester Contract Posted 8 hours ago
Role Purpose
Build and evolve secure, resilient cloud platforms and delivery capabilities that enable engineering teams to release software faster, safely, and consistently. This is a hands-on role covering Kubernetes engineering, infrastructure automation, continuous delivery, observability, and platform controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms using GKE and OpenShift.
- Create reusable platform services and developer self-service capabilities using Backstage and Internal Developer Platform patterns.
- Build secure cloud environments using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness and Jenkins.
- Implement observability solutions using Dynatrace, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting.
- Define SLI/SLO measures and automate operational runbooks.
- Engineer service-to-service connectivity using Istio Service Mesh.
- Manage secrets, certificates and workload identity using HashiCorp Vault.
- Embed security, resilience and governance controls into engineering practices.
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security and operations teams while promoting platform engineering standards.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong Kubernetes engineering experience; GKE preferred.
- OpenShift experience (mandatory).
- Google Cloud Platform (preferred).
- Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise.
- Hands-on experience with Harness CI/CD and Jenkins.
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts.
- Dynatrace monitoring and observability.
- HashiCorp Vault and certificate management.
- Istio Service Mesh and networking concepts.
- GitHub/Git, automation, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.
Desirable Skills
- Experience in large regulated enterprise environments.
- Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud experience.
- Automation using Bash, Python or PowerShell.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering, incident management, resilience and capacity management.
What Success Looks Like
- Secure, scalable and repeatable platform services.
- Faster and safer software delivery through automation.
- Improved reliability through observability, measurable SLOs and automated operations.
Please let me know if you are interested, and share your updated CV along with your availability for a discussion.
