GCP Senior DevOps Consultant – London – Contract

Location: London – Hybrid Contract: 6 months Positions: 2 We are looking for an experienced GCP Senior DevOps Consultant to join a major cloud technology programme in London. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Kubernetes and enterprise DevOps, with expertise in Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, CI/CD automation and cloud-native platform engineering. Key Responsibilities * Design, automate and operate scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform * Manage and support GKE/Kubernetes clusters and workloads * Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible * Develop automation using Python and Bash/Shell scripting * Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including scripted pipelines using Groovy * Manage containerised deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm * Work with GCP services including GKE, MIGs, CloudSQL and Memorystore * Automate build, deployment, security scanning and tooling integrations * Troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and deployment issues * Support monitoring and observability integrations using tools such as Datadog, Grafana and AppDynamics * Work across public and hybrid-cloud environments, including networking and firewall requirements Essential Skills * Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience * GKE and Kubernetes * Docker and Helm * Terraform and Ansible * Jenkins CI/CD * Jenkins/Groovy pipeline experience * Python and Bash/Shell scripting * Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting * Git and branching strategies * DevSecOps and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx or container-scanning solutions * Enterprise networking and firewall knowledge Desirable * GCP certification * CKA or CKAD * CloudSQL and Memorystore * Datadog, Grafana or AppDynamics * Nexus/GCR * SRE experience * Hybrid-cloud environments * Enterprise-scale DevOps experience This is an excellent opportunity for a senior GCP/DevOps professional with strong hands-on cloud platform engineering experience to work on a large-scale enterprise programme. Apply with your latest CV and details of your availability