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Senior GCP Engineer

Charles Simon Associates LtdLondon, UK🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 22 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and drive innovation with a competitive salary of GBP 85,000 - 95,000, alongside the flexibility of a remote work mode. You'll thrive here if you're a GCP-driven engineer with a strong DevOps mindset, eager to build automated, scalable, and secure cloud solutions and influence best practices across a large organization. Apply now to leverage your expertise in Terraform, Python, and GKE to make a significant impact!

Quick Overview

Salary
£85k - £95k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, UK, United Kingdom
Posted
3 days ago

Job Description

Position: Senior GCP Engineer

Location: Remote

Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 + benefits & Bonus


Ready to build cloud infrastructure the right way, automated, scalable, secure, and engineered, not clicked together?


This is a role for a GCP-driven engineer who wants ownership, modern tooling, and a platform team that genuinely does DevOps rather than just talk about it.


The Opportunity:

Join a cross-functional engineering group delivering enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. Youll shape cloud products, design reusable IaC patterns, and build automation that removes toil for dozens of teams across the business.

This isnt a support role. Its hands-on engineering with room to influence standards, architecture, and tooling across a huge GCP estate.


What Youll Be Doing:

  • Engineering GCP infrastructure products using Terraform & Terraform Cloud.
  • Designing reusable IaC modules, refactoring legacy configs, improving state management.
  • Building automation, tooling and workflows in Python.
  • Developing secure, scalable GCP landing zones with org policies, policy-as-code (OPA/Sentinel), guardrails, and zero-trust principles.
  • Working deeply with GKE, containers, Istio, cluster ops, and cloud-native networking.
  • Integrating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, Harness) to automate everything from builds to deployments.
  • Driving cloud adoption and best practice across feature teams.


What You Bring:

  • Strong GCP cloud engineering background with a DevOps mindset.
  • Terraform expertise (modules, state, workspaces, enterprise patterns).
  • Solid Python scripting for tooling and automation.
  • GKE, service mesh, containerisation & cluster management experience.
  • Experience implementing org-level governance, security, and policy-as-code.
  • Certifications in GCP and Terraform are a big plus.


Nice to Have:

  • SME-level GCP knowledge or consulting experience.
  • Experience influencing architecture, design, and DevOps strategy.
  • Familiarity with IDE-style engineering platforms (e.g., Backstage).


Why This Role?

  • A genuinely modern GCP environment not a half-migrated legacy swamp.
  • Real engineering autonomy and the chance to shape cloud platforms at scale.
  • Backed by a major UK organisation with huge learning, career and technical development opportunities.
  • A culture that values DevOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering excellence.

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