GCP Architect - 6 months - London - £800/day

GCP Architect - 6 months - London - £800/day We are seeking an experienced GCP Architect to join a large enterprise financial services technology platforms team on a 6-month contract based in London. The successful candidate will deliver and operate GCP foundational services and applications, working alongside Embedded Google architects to implement a recent architecture review and enable the next phase of cloud deployment at scale. Key Responsibilities: Deliver and implement foundational services in GCP landing zones alongside Embedded Google architects Design and build Terraform-driven infrastructure across the GCP org hierarchy, including folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking Build and own CI/CD pipelines (via GitHub Actions) that deliver infrastructure and policy as code Own ongoing implementation of changes identified in the recent GCP architecture review Manage Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls to connect and secure GCP projects Build and deploy workloads across GKE, general compute, and Cloud Run Collaborate with the Network team on landing zone standards and Palo Alto Firewall integration What You Will Ideally Bring: Proficient, hands-on GCP Architecture experience across Shared VPC, Compute, GKE, and Cloud Run - GCP Architect Professional certified; must be GCP-first, not AWS-only Expert-level Terraform/Infrastructure as Code experience, covering org hierarchy, folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking Expert-level CI/CD pipeline engineering, ..... full job details .....