Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer (GCP / Kubernetes)
Location: Fully Remote (occasional travel to Hertfordshire if required)
Contract: Initial 4–5 month contract
Start: Mid April

We are supporting a major global IT services provider delivering platform engineering services for one of the world’s leading international financial institutions. They are seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build, operate and industrialise modern cloud-native platforms across hybrid and public cloud environments.
This role sits within a high-impact platform engineering programme focused on automation, reliability engineering and secure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Operations

• Build, operate and continuously improve lab and production platforms across Google Cloud (GKE / GKE On-Prem / GDC).
• Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, including:
  • Cluster lifecycle management
  • Upgrades and patching
  • Day 0 / Day 1 / Day 2 automation
  • Drift remediation and reliability engineering
• Implement GitOps-first operations using Argo CD.
• Enforce platform standards, configuration baselines and compliance evidence collection.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Engineer consistent infrastructure across public and private cloud environments using:
  • Terraform Enterprise
  • Ansible Automation Platform
  • Metalsoft
• Develop and maintain multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Build reusable Golden Path modules and templated infrastructure stacks.

Security, Zero Trust & Secrets Management

• Embed Zero Trust principles including MFA, IP allow-listing, IAP and HA VPN.
• Implement enterprise secrets lifecycle management using Akeyless.
• Integrate compliance controls, CI policy gates and audit trails aligned with financial regulatory requirements

Required Skills & Experience Expert Level

• CI/CD and IaC automation using:
  • GitHub Actions
  • Terraform Enterprise
  • Ansible Automation Platform
• GitOps operations using Argo CD
• Kubernetes platform lifecycle management
• Terraform workspace and module design across cloud environments
• Secrets lifecycle and vault patterns (e.g. Akeyless)
• Multi-stage infrastructure and application pipelines
• Building reusable Golden Path infrastructure modules

Practitioner Level

• Kubernetes operations and patch automation
• Drift remediation and reliability engineering
• Secret rotation automation and compliance evidence collection
• Bare-metal infrastructure automation using Metalsoft
• Network and perimeter security controls (MFA, IAP, HA VPN, IP allow listing)
• CI policy checks and security gating
• Infrastructure cost-aware provisioning