DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer – Google Cloud (GCP) & Kubernetes (GKE)

📍 UK-Based | Hybrid/Remote

Full-Time

Build. Optimise. Innovate.

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our growing Cloud Engineering team, supporting a large enterprise customer operating a complex Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role where you'll take ownership of the day-to-day operation and continual improvement of a large-scale Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) platform. You'll be responsible for enhancing platform reliability, security, automation and observability while working alongside experienced cloud specialists and customer stakeholders.

If you're passionate about Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, automation and solving complex technical challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

You'll become the dedicated DevOps engineer supporting an established GCP environment, responsible for:

• Managing and supporting Kubernetes (GKE) workloads and platform services
• Deploying and maintaining applications using GitOps and FluxCD
• Investigating and resolving platform and deployment issues
• Optimising workload performance, scaling and resource utilisation
• Taking ownership of the customer's Datadog monitoring and observability platform
• Improving dashboards, alerting, monitoring coverage and reducing alert fatigue
• Managing vulnerability remediation and improving security posture across containerised workloads
• Producing operational documentation, runbooks and technical guidance
• Working closely with customer engineering teams while coordinating with third-party infrastructure partners
• Contributing to continual service improvement and technical reviews

What we're looking for

You'll have strong commercial experience working within Google Cloud environments and be comfortable operating production Kubernetes platforms.

We're particularly interested in candidates with experience in:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Datadog monitoring and observability
• GitOps and FluxCD
• CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform or Infrastructure as Code
• Linux administration
• Git version control
• Kubernetes security and vulnerability management (CVEs)

Bonus points if you have experience with

• Google Security Command Center or Chronicle
• Cost optimisation within GCP
• Containerising applications
• Development or scripting (Python, NodeJS, C#, PHP etc.)
• Consulting or customer-facing engineering roles

Why join us?

You'll be joining a highly skilled cloud team working with enterprise-scale technologies where you'll have the opportunity to:

• Work on modern cloud-native platforms
• Influence technical direction and platform improvements
• Own a critical monitoring and observability capability
• Work with leading Google Cloud technologies
• Gain further professional certifications
• Make a real impact on customer success

If you're looking for a role where you can combine technical excellence with customer engagement and genuinely influence the reliability and evolution of a modern cloud platform, we'd love to hear from you.