DevOps Engineer

GCP DevOps Engineer

£70,000

Remote

This is a new opportunity to join a well-established retail business with a large, mature Google Cloud estate across multiple environments. As a GCP DevOps Engineer, you'll be a dedicated resource working alongside the existing platform team. You'll be responsible for the day-to-day DevOps operation of the in-cluster platform and workload layer across their GKE estate.

This role suits a hands-on DevOps Engineer with deep GCP and Kubernetes experience and strong Datadog skills. It isn't a firefighting role. You'll build on a solid platform by developing the Datadog monitoring estate, keeping security and CVE standards high, and acting as a technical adviser to the platform team on platform-layer improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Run, maintain and upgrade in-cluster platform tooling, including FluxCD
• Deploy workloads through GitOps and troubleshoot deployment and platform issues
• Scale and right-size workloads, and provision namespaces and environments
• Audit and improve Datadog by cutting alert noise, closing coverage gaps and building dashboards
• Link runbooks to alerts and set up notification routing for P1 escalation paths
• Fix High and Critical CVEs within a 14-day target and maintain base images
• Review Security Command Center findings and keep a clear audit trail for compliance
• Write runbooks and documentation, and escalate to third-party partners where needed
• Take part in monthly and quarterly service reviews

Tech Stack

• 5 years+
• 100% Google Cloud Platform (no AWS or Azure)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Compute Engine
• Kubernetes operations, workload scaling and right-sizing (HPA)
• Datadog monitors, alert tuning, dashboards, notification routing and runbook integration
• GitOps with FluxCD and CI/CD workflows
• IaC with Terraform / Config Connector
• Containerisation with Docker, CVE patching and image lifecycle management
• Google Cloud Security Command Center
• Git and Linux

Nice to Have

• Consulting or client-facing experience
• Google Chronicle / SecOps
• Scripting in Python, NodeJS, C# or PHP
• GCP cost optimisation
• Google Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Please apply directly or email your CV to [email protected]

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