DevOps Engineer - GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins

DevOps Engineer - GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins

Posted 4 days ago by GCS

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Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves working within a team to ensure platform stability and availability, focusing on CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. The position requires expertise in Kubernetes, GCP, and Terraform, with a strong emphasis on optimizing application performance and operational excellence. The engineer will also mentor teams and enforce DevSecOps best practices. This is a 12-month contract role classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Kubernetes clusters.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Tekton.
  • Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Implement observability and performance dashboards.
  • Manage infrastructure-as-code and environment provisioning in GCP.
  • Enforce DevSecOps best practices.
  • Support incident response and capacity planning.
  • Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence.

Key Skills:

  • Expertise in Kubernetes internals and GCP services.
  • Performance troubleshooting skills.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform.
  • Strong knowledge of observability stacks.
  • Proficiency in Python and Jenkins/Tekton.
  • Containerization skills with Docker.
  • Git workflows knowledge.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.
  • Ownership mindset with minimal supervision.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Sheffield

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

DevOps Engineer - 12 Months Contract - Inside IR35

My client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to work as part of a team to ensure platform stability, availability and CI/CD pipelines to ensure the platform is stable for all the engineers to work in the environment.

Top Skills

- 5+ years DevOps and Platform experience - GCP (preferred), AWS/Azure

- Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Jenkins - to define and provision infrastucture in cloud and automate, build test and deploy code

- Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

- Kubernetes - to automate deployment, scaling and managememt of containerized applications

- CI/CD pipelines - Working on CI/CD high availability to ensure CI/CD systems remains operational and resilient.

- Large scale enterprise/structured environment experience highly preferred ie Banking, Financial Services etc.

Job Title: DevOps Engineer (UK)

Overview: Seeking an experienced senior engineer to own and optimize CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and application performance. Focus on Python, Kubernetes workloads, and GCP platform reliability.

Core Responsibilities:
Diagnose and resolve performance issues across kubernetes clusters (networking, autoscaling, resource tuning).
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton).
Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows (artifact strategy, caching, security gates).
Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and performance dashboards.
Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and environment provisioning in GCP.
Enforce DevSecOps best practices (image hardening, secrets management, SBOM, scanning).
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.
Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence.

Essential Skills: -
Expert Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controllers, pod lifecycle, RBAC, networking, ingress, HPA/VPA).
Expert GCP services (GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM).
Performance troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning).
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform modules, state management, policy enforcement).
Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, alert tuning).
Strong Python (packages, virtual environments, dependency management, performance profiling).
Strong Jenkins (shared libraries, pipelines-as-code) & Tekton (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers).
Containerization (Docker image optimization, multi-stage builds, runtime security).
Git workflows (branching strategy, release tagging, code review automation).
Compliance Awareness.

Soft Skills: -
Precise communicator
documentation discipline. -
Ownership mindset, able to operate with minimal supervision.
Engagement Details: -

Location:
UK non-london (hybrid). - 3 days in office - Candidate must be in office 3 days a week, this can either be in Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham or Edinburgh office, whicher is local to candidate

Deliverables
(First 30 Days): -
Assess existing GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure and produce an optimization report focused on Jenkins OS and controller
performance.
Implement approved optimizations to stabilize Jenkins controllers and reduce risk of downtime.

Please apply if you have Kubernetes, GCP, Python and Jenkins/Tekton experience.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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