GCP DevOps Engineer

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. This position is a contract position that will likely renew on a daily basis. It is hybrid working with 3 days in office with Office locations being either Sheffield, Birmingham, Edinburgh or London (Sheffield is preferred).

Description

Job Title: GCP DevOps Engineer

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. This position is a contract position that will likely renew on a daily basis. It is hybrid working with 3 days in office with Office locations being either Sheffield, Birmingham, Edinburgh or London (Sheffield is preferred).

Core Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance issues across k8s 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.

Job Title: GCP DevOps Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Rate/Salary: 450.00 - 500.00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract

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