GCP Senior DevOps Consultant – London – Contract

Description:

Location: London – Hybrid
Contract: 6 months
Positions: 2

We are looking for an experienced GCP Senior DevOps Consultant to join a major cloud technology programme in London.

The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Kubernetes and enterprise DevOps, with expertise in Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, CI/CD automation and cloud-native platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

* Design, automate and operate scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform

* Manage and support GKE/Kubernetes clusters and workloads

* Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible

* Develop automation using Python and Bash/Shell scripting

* Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including scripted pipelines using Groovy

* Manage containerised deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm

* Work with GCP services including GKE, MIGs, CloudSQL and Memorystore

* Automate build, deployment, security scanning and tooling integrations

* Troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and deployment issues

* Support monitoring and observability integrations using tools such as Datadog, Grafana and AppDynamics

* Work across public and hybrid-cloud environments, including networking and firewall requirements

Essential Skills

* Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience

* GKE and Kubernetes

* Docker and Helm

* Terraform and Ansible

* Jenkins CI/CD

* Jenkins/Groovy pipeline experience

* Python and Bash/Shell scripting

* Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting

* Git and branching strategies

* DevSecOps and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx or container-scanning solutions

* Enterprise networking and firewall knowledge

Desirable

* GCP certification

* CKA or CKAD

* CloudSQL and Memorystore

* Datadog, Grafana or AppDynamics

* Nexus/GCR

* SRE experience

* Hybrid-cloud environments

* Enterprise-scale DevOps experience

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior GCP/DevOps professional with strong hands-on cloud platform engineering experience to work on a large-scale enterprise programme.

Apply with your latest CV and details of your availability