Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Administrator
Posted 1 week ago by Square One Resources
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Administrator involves overseeing the migration of services from an offshore GCP environment to a UK-based GCP account. The position requires strong hands-on experience in GCP administration and entails managing the GCP environment, ensuring compliance, and providing knowledge transfer to internal teams. The engagement is contract-based and classified as inside IR35, with a hybrid working arrangement. The role is based in Birmingham, UK, and is expected to start as soon as possible.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and manage a UK-based GCP environment
- Support migration of services from an offshore GCP account to a UK GCP account
- Set up, configure, and maintain GCP infrastructure to support applications
- Implement and manage GCP security, IAM, networking, and governance
- Support application updates deployed via GitHub into the UK GCP environment
- Ensure platform stability, performance, and compliance during migration
- Produce documentation and provide structured knowledge transfer
- Assist with upskilling internal teams ahead of go-live
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience as a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Administrator
- Proven experience delivering GCP migrations, ideally across regions or accounts
- Solid understanding of GCP IAM and security best practices
- Networking, compute, storage, and monitoring
- CI/CD workflows (GitHub-based deployments)
- Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments
- Ability to work independently and take full ownership of infrastructure delivery
- Strong documentation and knowledge transfer skills
- Desirable GCP certifications (Associate or Professional level)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Opportunity: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Administration
Location: Birmingham, UK (Hybrid – 2x3 days a week)
Engagement: Contract – Inside IR35
Start Date: ASAP
Initial Duration: Until May/June
Overview
We are undertaking a project to migrate part of an existing service from an offshore Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment into a UK-based GCP account. An experienced GCP Administrator is required to take ownership of this migration and the associated GCP environment in the short to medium term. Due to current capacity and skills constraints, this role will be responsible for end-to-end GCP administration throughout the project lifecycle, followed by structured handover and training to internal teams ahead of go-live. The engagement will cover setup, migration support, go-live assistance, and knowledge transfer.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and manage a UK-based GCP environment
- Support migration of services from an offshore GCP account to a UK GCP account
- Set up, configure, and maintain GCP infrastructure to support applications
- Implement and manage GCP security, IAM, networking, and governance
- Support application updates deployed via GitHub into the UK GCP environment
- Ensure platform stability, performance, and compliance during migration
- Produce documentation and provide structured knowledge transfer
- Assist with upskilling internal teams ahead of go-live
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience as a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Administrator
- Proven experience delivering GCP migrations, ideally across regions or accounts
- Solid understanding of: GCP IAM and security best practices
- Networking, compute, storage, and monitoring
- CI/CD workflows (GitHub-based deployments)
- Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments
- Ability to work independently and take full ownership of infrastructure delivery
- Strong documentation and knowledge transfer skills
- Desirable GCP certifications (Associate or Professional level)