OpticoreIT
Senior GCP Platform Engineer
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About Opticore IT
Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications, and more.
About the Role
Opticore IT is currently searching for a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and operate GCP foundational services and applications for the technology platform at a large enterprise financial services client. You'll work alongside embedded Google architects to implement a recent architecture review and enable the next phase of cloud deployment at scale.
Responsibilities
- Deliver and implement foundational services in GCP landing zones alongside embedded Google architects.
- Design and build Terraform-driven infrastructure across the GCP org hierarchy, including folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking.
- Build and own the CI/CD pipelines that deliver infrastructure and policy as code.
- Own the ongoing implementation of changes identified in the recent GCP architecture review.
- Manage Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls to connect and secure GCP projects.
- Build and deploy workloads across GKE, general compute, and Cloud Run.
- Collaborate with the Network Team on landing zone standards and Palo Alto firewall integration.
- Produce operational runbooks to transition delivered services into steady-state operations.
- Support SNP's next phase of application and service deployment at pace.
- Split time roughly 50/50 between project delivery and operational support.
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Requirements
- GCP Architecture & Broad Engineering: GCP Architect Professional certified. With hands-on experience across Shared VPC, Compute, GKE, and Cloud Run.
- Terraform & Infrastructure as Code: All infrastructure delivered via IaC, covering org hierarchy, folders, projects, IAM policies, and networking.
- CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: All delivery runs through GitHub Actions. Must be able to build and own the pipelines.
- Landing Zone Delivery & Runbook Production: Hands-on implementing architecture-review changes, deploying foundational services to the documented reference architecture, and producing runbooks to hand services over to operations.
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At Opticore IT, we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
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Contract Details
This position will be on an initial 6-month contract (Inside IR35), with 1 day per week on-site in London.
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