Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer

Posted 09 January 2026
LocationEngland
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

Job Title: Senior GCP Cloud Infra Engineer

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh- 2Days/week Onsite

Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35

550GBP/Day

The Role

We're looking to recruit Senior GCP Infra DevOps Engineer to be part of our Public Cloud Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud Infra, product and DevOps capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud Adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient and efficient . Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change.

Your role as a GCP Cloud Infra & DevOps specialist involves supporting teams with modern DevOps solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity.

Your responsibilities:

  • Hands-on GCP Cloud Engineering with a strong GCP DevOps and CI/CD background

  • Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and proven experience in Terraform / Terraform Cloud.

  • Strong hands on experience on curating GCP Cloud Products and Infrastructure

  • Build automated workflows around the products using Python Scripting.

  • Proficient in Google Kubernetes (GKE), Container, Istio Service Mesh, Cluster Management

  • Audit and restructure existing Terraform modules and state files

  • Migrate legacy configurations into unified, reusable templates

  • Implement security-focused Terraform modules with embedded guardrails and policy-as-code (e.g., Sentinel, OPA)

  • Enforce GCP Org Policies with constraints like IP restrictions, network policy, Access Management, encryption, and region control for secure, compliant cloud governance

  • CI/CD Integration

  • Implement automation pipelines for infrastructure-as-code deployments

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

  • GCP Cloud Engineering, GCP DevOps & Infra

  • Terraform / Terraform Cloud (IaaC)

  • Python Scripting.

  • Harness, Jenkins, GitHub

  • Google Kubernetes (GKE), Container, Istio Service Mesh

  • GCP Organisation Policy, Custom Org Policy (Policy as a Code) – Sentinel/OPA

  • GCP and Terraform Certified

  • Good to have experience working in an IDE Platform for Cloud Engineering (e.g. Backstage)

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

Looking for Senior Engineering Skills as GCP Cloud SMEs who has contributed also as a Technical Consultant in guiding Design, Architecture and Strategy. Bringing in thought leadership in driving innovation, best practices

Good communicator, collaborator and Leader with experience on working with multiple organisational stakeholders.