Overview

GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Permanent, Full-time

Location: Pond Street, Sheffield. 3 days a week on site.

Salary: Competitive; includes car allowance, healthcare, annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates.

Job reference: 325329

Responsibilities

• Deliver Strategic Infrastructure Initiatives and maintain service availability with accountability for annual cloud budgets exceeding £10 million.
• Take a lead role in the RM Cloud Centre of Excellence, driving value from cloud technologies and building strong relationships with stakeholders across multiple architecture disciplines.
• Influence the delivery of major Infrastructure Improvement Programmes, working closely with Senior Infrastructure Managers and Architects (Enterprise, Solution, Cyber, Infrastructure, Data).
• Collaborate with technology portfolios to ensure cloud services are aligned to solid cloud foundations; provide support and guidance to project, product, and platforms teams.
• Develop strong relationships with suppliers, vendors and business partners to deliver well-architected cloud services and perform root cause analysis during major incidents.
• Work with the RM Cyber team to implement best-practice security controls balanced with user experience considerations.
• Act as the central point of contact for GCP-related service decisions, incidents, changes, and service improvement plans.
• Define, publish, deploy and maintain cloud blueprints, standards, patterns and policies to drive consistency across Azure/GCP technologies.
• Own the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) repository and ensure core environmental configurations are maintained; lead Terraform design and deployments via Azure DevSecOps pipelines.
• Drive automation to enable self-service for platform and product engineering (DevSecOps).
• Develop and publish a detailed Cloud Roadmap, align prioritisation, resources and budget; contribute to monthly reporting governance for technology executives.
• Support FinOps initiatives to apply cost controls to cloud resources and contribute to CMDB data accuracy for RM GCP resources.

Qualifications and Skills

• Core skills in Google Cloud Platform: VPC, Firewall, Security Groups/Service Accounts, Interconnects.
• Cloud governance concepts: FinOps, policy, RBAC, Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), CASB.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Azure AD, and Azure Hybrid Benefit.
• ITIL Foundation or equivalent knowledge.
• Experience with IaC and Terraform; familiarity with Azure DevSecOps pipelines is desirable.

Benefits

• Family-friendly support: enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers across groceries, days out, holidays and household bills.
• Supportive company sick pay; wellbeing resources for physical/mental health, financial and social support.
• 24/7 access to wellbeing services for employees and their families.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face or virtual interview including competency-based and role-specific questions. We welcome applicants whose experience may differ from the exact criteria but who can demonstrate relevant skills and value.

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