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Senior Infrastructure Engineer – GCP

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London · England · United Kingdom

  • Design, document, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP
  • Ensure cloud environment performance and reliability while measuring cost-effectiveness
  • Automate infrastructure and minimize manual implementation
  • Build systems with security by design
  • Ensure platform compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and 3DS
  • Design and operate GCP key and secret management, including support for cryptographic key ceremonies
  • Diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining security and performance
  • Write technical documentation and host team training sessions
  • Track new technologies and industry changes
  • Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through operations
  • Shape Engine’s infrastructure approach, tooling, automation, and architecture
  • Set a high technical standard through hands-on contributions
  • Collaborate with engineering teams supporting a global, cloud-native banking platform across multiple regions and cloud providers

Requirements

  • Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience
  • Experience bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies, and structuring enterprise resource hierarchies
  • Experience with GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, IAM, and VPC Service Controls
  • Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code
  • Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems, and immutable infrastructure
  • Experience with GCP key and secret management using Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM), and Secret Manager, including cryptographic key ceremonies
  • Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using NCC, Cloud VPN, and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect
  • Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless workload and CI/CD authentication
  • Experience with observability tooling including Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana
  • Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity
  • Experience automating with a scripting language such as Python or Go
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
  • Understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts
  • Ability to write RFCs and ADRs through design, implementation, and production, with documented runbooks and operating models
  • Ideally, experience with Zero Trust security, mTLS, and SSO
  • Ideally, experience with AWS
  • Ideally, familiarity with bash and Golang, Java, or Python development
  • Ideally, understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
  • Ideally, understanding of networking and routing concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, and BGP
  • Awareness or ability to leverage Claude Skills during development
  • Aptitude for finding elegant solutions to difficult technical problems
  • Willingness to work within a collaborative, self-driven, ownership-oriented culture

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure on GCP, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and automation. Proficient in implementing disaster recovery strategies and managing GCP services while ensuring performance and cost-effectiveness.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • GCP Multi-Region Disaster Recovery
  • Terraform Code Development
  • GCP Key And Secret Management
  • CI/CD Pipeline Implementation
  • Observability Tooling Experience

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Hard Skills

  • GCP Services
  • Terraform
  • Cloud KMS
  • Cloud VPN
  • Distributed Systems
  • Python
  • Go
  • RESTful API
  • Zero Trust Security
  • Database Monitoring

Soft Skills

  • Problem-Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Ownership
  • Technical Documentation
  • Training

Certifications & Qualifications

  • ISO 27001
  • SOC 2
  • PCI DSS

Industry Keywords

  • Cloud-Native Banking
  • Infrastructure Compliance
  • Hybrid Connectivity
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Cryptographic Key Ceremonies

Tools & Technologies

  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud Logging
  • Grafana
  • Google Workspace
  • Cloud SQL

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