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Senior Network Architect GCP
£36,000 - 60,000
Gazelle Global Consulting Ltd
Chancery Lane 53-64, West Midlands
£36,000 - 60,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong, hands-on experience with GCP networking, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, and peering.
- Proven expertise in hybrid connectivity, specifically Cloud VPN and Interconnect.
- Advanced experience using Terraform and Terraform Cloud for network IaC.
- Proficient in Python scripting for infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating infrastructure workflows into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Harness.
- Solid understanding of GCP Organisation Policy and policy-as-code frameworks such as Sentinel or OPA.
- GCP certification, ideally Professional Cloud Network Engineer or equivalent.
- Experience working with internal developer platforms or cloud engineering portals such as Backstage (nice to have).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-scale GCP Virtual Data Centre (VDC) network architectures.
- Build and manage VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, and VPC peering to enable secure, scalable connectivity.
- Implement hybrid connectivity using Cloud VPN and Interconnect to support on-prem and multi-cloud integration.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for GCP network resources using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
- Automate network provisioning and configuration using Python scripting.
- Define and enforce GCP Organisation Policies to meet security, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Integrate network deployments into CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and release.
- Implement policy-as-code guardrails using Sentinel or OPA to ensure consistent network governance.
- Optimise network performance, resilience, and availability through monitoring, logging, and proactive tuning.
- Partner with security teams to embed network security best practices, including firewall design, private access, and service perimeters.
- Support migration of legacy network designs into standardised, reusable VDC templates.
- Diagnose and resolve complex, multi-layer network issues across GCP environments.
Description
We are recruiting a Senior GCP VDC Network Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform team, responsible for delivering compliant, secure, and efficient Google Cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities across the Group. This hands-on senior engineering role will involve designing and building reusable, enterprise-grade GCP network products and modernising cloud network services. You will act as a senior technical authority within a cross-disciplinary feature team, influencing design decisions, guiding strategy, and setting standards in a collaborative environment.
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