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.

Apply with your latest CV and details of your availability