GCP Senior DevOps Consultant – London – Contract

Location: London – Hybrid

Contract: 6 months

Positions: 2

We are looking for an experienced GCP Senior DevOps Consultant to join a major cloud technology programme in London.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, automate and operate scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform


• Manage and support GKE/Kubernetes clusters and workloads


• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible


• Develop automation using Python and Bash/Shell scripting


• Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including scripted pipelines using Groovy


• Manage containerised deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm


• Work with GCP services including GKE, MIGs, CloudSQL and Memorystore


• Automate build, deployment, security scanning and tooling integrations


• Troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and deployment issues


• Support monitoring and observability integrations using tools such as Datadog, Grafana and AppDynamics


• Work across public and hybrid-cloud environments, including networking and firewall requirements

Essential Skills

• Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience


• GKE and Kubernetes


• Docker and Helm


• Terraform and Ansible


• Jenkins CI/CD


• Jenkins/Groovy pipeline experience


• Python and Bash/Shell scripting


• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting


• Git and branching strategies


• DevSecOps and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx or container-scanning solutions


• Enterprise networking and firewall knowledge

Desirable

• GCP certification


• CKA or CKAD


• CloudSQL and Memorystore


• Datadog, Grafana or AppDynamics


• Nexus/GCR


• SRE experience


• Hybrid-cloud environments


• Enterprise-scale DevOps experience

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior GCP/DevOps professional with strong hands-on cloud platform engineering experience to work on a large-scale enterprise programme.