GCP DCX Engineering Lead - 12 months - Bristol/Leeds/Halifax/Manchester/Edinburgh - £525/d

GCP DCX Engineering Lead - 12 months - Bristol/Leeds/Halifax/Manchester/Edinburgh - £525/day We are seeking an experienced GCP Infrastructure Engineering Lead to join a global technology services organisation on a 12-month hybrid contract, with flexibility to be based across Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, or Edinburgh (2 days per week on-site). The successful candidate will lead a team of 30+ engineers within the Public Cloud Services Compute (GCP DCX) team for a major financial services client, combining technical leadership with hands-on cloud engineering across a large-scale IaaS platform. Key Responsibilities: Lead, guide, and mentor a team of 30+ infrastructure engineers across multi-partner and permanent colleague structures, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance Set the technical strategy, roadmap, and engineering priorities for the GCP DCX (Data Centre Extension) IaaS platform, including quarterly business planning Design, build, and operate secure, automated Google compute capabilities supporting RHEL and Windows virtual machines, compute, and networking products Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform for provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources, ensuring repeatability and compliance Enable product teams to deliver Google IaaS solutions at pace, leveraging reusable patterns and robust integration tooling Embed security best practices and controls throughout the platform life cycle, ..... full job details .....