GCP DevOps Engineer

Location: Manchester | Hybrid – 2 Days per week office

Working pattern: Full-time

Contract

Rate – £570 Inside IR35

Availability – Immediate needed

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms using GKE and OpenShift, covering cluster lifecycle management, networking, ingress and workload security.
• Develop reusable platform services and standard delivery patterns, enabling developer self-service through Backstage and Internal Developer Platform capabilities.
• Build secure, repeatable cloud environments and reusable infrastructure modules using Terraform.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness and Jenkins, incorporating release controls and consistent deployment practices.
• Implement end-to-end observability through Dynatrace, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting and service health monitoring.
• Define service level indicators and objectives, and automate runbooks, remediation and routine operational activities.
• Engineer service connectivity using Istio Service Mesh, including traffic management, ingress and egress controls, and policy enforcement.
• Manage secrets, certificates and workload identity using HashiCorp Vault and automated certificate lifecycle processes.
• Embed least-privilege access, secure configuration, resilience and auditability into platform engineering practices.
• Support platform adoption, coach colleagues and contribute to shared engineering standards.

Essential skills and experience

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering experience, including OpenShift. GKE experience is preferred.
• Strong Terraform skills, including reusable modules and infrastructure automation.
• Cloud platform engineering experience, preferably with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing and maintaining delivery pipelines using Harness and Jenkins.
• Experience with Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including developer self-service and reusable delivery patterns.
• Strong Dynatrace experience across monitoring, telemetry, dashboards and alerting.
• Understanding of SLI/SLO practices and operational runbook automation.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM and secure platform configuration.
• Experience with Istio Service Mesh, service connectivity, traffic management and network security principles.
• Confident using GitHub / Git, with strong troubleshooting, automation and production support skills.
• Ability to collaborate across technical teams and communicate engineering practices clearly.

Desirable experience

• Operating platforms within a large, regulated enterprise.
• Working across multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Scripting and automation using Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Reliability engineering, incident management, capacity planning and resilience.
• Using cost telemetry to understand and improve platform efficiency.

What you will deliver

• Secure, repeatable and supportable platform services backed by clear engineering standards.
• Faster and safer software releases through automation and reusable delivery patterns.
• An improved developer experience through accessible self-service capabilities.
• Greater service reliability through measurable objectives, actionable observability and automated operations.