https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-cloud-engineer-sc-cleared-viqu-it--768698bb-abd8-41a0-8050-f620a76f6c6c RSS feed for Senior Cloud Engineer - SC Cleared at VIQU IT. en-gb Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:50:46 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-cloud-engineer-sc-cleared-viqu-it--768698bb-abd8-41a0-8050-f620a76f6c6c https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-cloud-engineer-sc-cleared-viqu-it--768698bb-abd8-41a0-8050-f620a76f6c6c Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT Location: London | Salary: £450 - £550/day | Type: Contract | Senior GCP Cloud Engineer (Contract, SC) - Kubernetes / GKE / Air-Gapped   THE SHORT VERSION A UK technology business building AI systems for regulated, security-sensitive environments is standing up a new data platform on Google Cloud, and needs someone to own the ground it runs on. GKE, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability, on a deliberately open-source stack with no managed-service shortcuts. You run it yourself rather than consuming managed equivalents. The interesting part is the topology: an edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them, putting real weight on networking, inter-cluster connectivity and security posture.   This is a GCP role end to end. If your depth is in Azure or AWS, this one won''t be the right fit.   THE ENGINEERING PROBLEM   Split topology. An edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them. Getting that right is the defining challenge of the role. Constrained environments. Deployments into restricted, disconnected and high-classification networks, which changes almost every assumption you can normally make about connectivity and tooling. Security by design. Systems are under accreditation s... Contract