GCP Senior Devops Consultant - London - Contract

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.