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Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP / AWS - SC Cleared
We are recruiting a Senior Cloud Engineer to support the discovery and design of a future-state Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment within central government.
Whilst this is a GCP-focused engagement, we are open to experienced AWS Cloud Engineers who have a foundational understanding of GCP and are keen to develop their expertise further. The role offers an opportunity to apply existing enterprise cloud engineering skills within a GCP environment, with scope to cross-train and build deeper platform-specific experience.
You will work closely with the Lead Cloud Architect to assess the existing environment, validate architectural decisions and ensure the proposed landing zone, governance and security models can be implemented effectively.
We are particularly interested in engineers who have delivered complex cloud environments, understand enterprise-scale platform engineering and can transfer their knowledge across cloud providers.
Role responsibilities
- Assess the existing GCP estate, platform configuration and engineering practices.
- Review GCP organisation administration, project governance, resource hierarchies and IAM controls.
- Evaluate cloud security capabilities, audit logging and monitoring, including GCP Security Command Center.
- Validate the technical feasibility of the proposed landing zone, security architecture and governance model.
- Identify implementation risks, technical dependencies and remediation priorities.
- Develop proof-of-concepts for the target landing zone and project-vending approach.
- Design and review Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with opportunities to develop experience in Google Cloud Fabric.
- Support CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or comparable to
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