GCP Senior DevOps Consultant

💰 £400/day (Inside IR35)
📍 London (2 days per week onsite)
📅 6-Month Contract

Our client is looking for an experienced GCP Senior DevOps Consultant to design, automate and operate scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a highly hands-on DevOps engineering role requiring deep expertise across GCP, GKE/Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Helm and Infrastructure as Code. You’ll build and automate enterprise CI/CD platforms, manage containerised workloads and embed DevSecOps practices across complex hybrid and public cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable GCP cloud-native platforms.
• Build and manage GKE/Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Python and Bash/Shell scripting.
• Build complex Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy.
• Manage Jenkins multi-branch pipelines, webhooks, credentials and permissions.
• Build and deploy containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm Charts.
• Work with GCP services including GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore and Managed Instance Groups (MIGs).
• Integrate application and platform monitoring using Datadog, Grafana and AppDynamics.
• Implement DevSecOps controls including SonarQube, Checkmarx and container scanning.
• Automate build, deployment, code scanning and tooling integrations through CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Git branching strategies and build processes using Maven and NPM.
• Work with repositories and registries including Nexus and Google Container Registry (GCR).
• Troubleshoot complex issues across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and application deployments.
• Support enterprise networking, firewall and connectivity requirements across hybrid and public cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and operations teams to improve platform reliability, performance and automation.