3064 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
GCP DevOps Engineer
£40,000 - 70,000
North Field Lane, Yorkshire And The Humber
£40,000 - 70,000
Requirements
Must:
- 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
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
Description
We are seeking an experienced senior GCP DevOps Engineer to own and optimize CI/CD processes, cloud infrastructure, and application performance. This position focuses on Python, Kubernetes workloads, and GCP platform reliability. It is a contract role that offers a hybrid working model, requiring 3 days in the office located in Sheffield, Birmingham, Edinburgh, or London, with a preference for Sheffield. We value collaboration and innovation in our team and look forward to welcoming a new member who is eager to contribute to our success.
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