GCP Devops Engineer

The Role: GCP Devops Engineer Location: Sheffield, UK Position Type: Contract Inside IR35 Remote work option Available: Hybrid (2 Days onsite in a week) Job Description: In this role, you will: * Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IAM components, policies, connectors, microservices, and integrations. * Enable automated testing, security scanning, and controlled deployments across DEV/TEST/PROD environments. * Implement continuous improvement to streamline IAM release processes. * Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible for deploying IAM infrastructure, identity policies, directories, and supporting platforms. * Ensure consistent, repeatable environments and compliance with architectural standards. * Develop scripts and automation for account lifecycle operations, access provisioning, and system integrations. * Deploy IAM services or related microservices on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and serverless environments. * Manage containerisation, service mesh integrations, certificates, and secrets for IAM workloads. * Embed security into the build and deployment process, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks. * Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and IAM security policies. * Collaborate with IAM architects, security teams, and application owners on design and integration requirements. * Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, IaC, deployment patterns, and operational processes. Key Skills & Experience Technical Skills * Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning) Terraform core, GCP Infra, Policy as code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies, * Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm / Kustomize, GKE Ops * CI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategy * Data pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA / PubSub) – Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoring * Graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observability * DevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, compliance * Release engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentation * Regionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access