Senior DevOps Engineer - GCP - Daily Rate Contract

Senior DevOps Engineer - GCP

Manchester / Remote | 12-month contract | Inside IR35 | Up to £500/day

This Senior DevOps Engineer contract is initially 12 months, with extensions considered likely, and will initially involve approximately 2-3 days per week onsite in Manchester with mostly remote working once established.

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a cloud engineering team delivering a major programme of infrastructure and platform change, including migration from on-premise environments into Google Cloud Platform.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer who enjoys hands-on engineering, cloud transformation and project delivery rather than spending the majority of their time supporting BAU environments.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior DevOps Engineer , you'll work across cloud infrastructure design, build, architecture and automation, with an initial focus on the migration into GCP.

You'll be working with technologies including:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Kubernetes / GKE

• Linux

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

• Ansible

• Bash / Python

• Cloud networking and security

• AWS where relevant

The team is focused primarily on delivering new projects and engineering solutions, with longer-term operational support handed over to TechOps.

What we're looking for

For this Senior DevOps Engineer position, strong hands-on GCP experience is essential .

You'll also need:

• Strong Kubernetes experience

• Solid Linux systems administration knowledge

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience

• Cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge

• Experience with automation and scripting

Ansible and AWS experience would also be valuable, alongside wider experience across CI/CD, cloud security and infrastructure automation.