Senior GCP Engineer

Senior GCP Engineer (Google Cloud Platform) Location: Manchester (2 days onsite) Salary: Up to £95,000 + Bonus + Benefits Ready to build cloud infrastructure properly automated, scalable, secure, and engineered (not manually stitched together)? This is a high-impact role for a Senior GCP Engineer / Platform Engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a team that actually practices DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The Opportunity Join a cross-functional platform engineering team delivering enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure. You ll design reusable cloud products, build automation, and define standards used by multiple engineering teams across a large-scale GCP estate. This is hands-on engineering, not support, with real influence over architecture, tooling, and DevOps practices. What You ll Be Doing Build and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform and Terraform Cloud Design and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules Improve Terraform state management, structure, and scalability Develop automation and tooling using Python Engineer secure GCP landing zones (org policies, guardrails, policy as code OPA/Sentinel, zero trust) Work with Kubernetes (GKE), containers, and service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio) Manage cluster operations, networking, and service-to-service communication Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness) Drive DevOps best practices and cloud adoption across teams What You ll ..... full job details .....