Lead Engineer

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Role: Google DCX Engineering Lead

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in GCP capabilities?

We have an exciting role for you - Google DCX Engineering Lead

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Gain access to endless learning opportunities.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.

The Role

As an Google DCX Engineering Lead you will be responsible as an Infrastructure engineering lead within the Public Cloud Services Compute (GCP DCX) team. You will be required to take care of Product Ownership, set the tech strategy, roadmap and engineering priorities, quarterly business planning for GCP DCX (Data Centre Extension) – IaaS Platform.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, Build, and Operate: Deliver and maintain secure, automated Google compute capabilities, supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows virtual machine and broader compute and networking products and configurations.
• Platform Enablement: Enable product teams to deliver Google IaaS solutions at pace, leveraging reusable patterns and robust integration tools.
• Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing Google resources, ensuring repeatability and compliance.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices and controls throughout the platform lifecycle, safeguarding organisational and customer data.
• Performance & Reliability: Define, monitor, and operate against service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs), ensuring high availability, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive automation, observability, and performance tuning to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with architecture and feature teams to evolve the cloud roadmap and platform products, contributing to documentation and enablement.
• Team Leadership, Mentoring & Standards: Lead, motivate, and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers and uphold engineering standards, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• GoogleCloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities, with a focus on Google compute products and services.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform (minimum), Jenkins, and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins).
• Networking & Security: Experience with GCP Cloud Armor, GCP Networking, and embedding secure-by-design controls from design to runtime.
• Automation & Observability: Implementing actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil. Defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs.
• Scripting & Tooling: Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, Harness, and Backstage is desirable.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Google Cloud Platform infrastructure:
• Compute Engine
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machines
• Windows virtual machines
• Local SSD
• Persistent Disk
• Cloud Networking
• Cloud Logging
• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Key Management
• Cloud Secret Manager
• Dynatrace
• GitHub Enterprise
• HashiCorp products, including Terraform and Packer
• Jenkins
• Backstage
• Jira Cloud and Jira Align

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity and inclusion motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks such as gender diversity, LGBTQIA+ & Allies, mental health, disability & neurodiversity inclusion and many more, as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and we sponsor the London Marathon.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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Next Steps

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