Senior DevOps Engineer

Charles Simon Associates Ltd

Manchester, North West

£95,000

Permanent

NEW

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. • Youll 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 Youll Be Doing:

• Build and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform & 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