Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

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Job Type: Permanent

Location: Letterkenny, Co.Donegal (Hybrid)

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Grow your career, while being exposed to new technologies.
• Be part of an exciting team where you will be challenged every day.
• Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, automation, and operational excellence of cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role requires an experienced professional capable of driving cloud transformation initiatives, establishing DevSecOps standards, and enabling secure, resilient, highly available enterprise platforms across regulated environments.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and cloud security, while partnering with architecture, engineering, risk, and operations teams.

Your responsibilities:

Cloud Platform Engineering

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms on GCP.
• Lead enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Define platform standards, reusable cloud patterns, and infrastructure blueprints.
• Architect multi-region disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.

DevOps and Automation

• Establish and govern enterprise CI/CD frameworks.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Drive environment automation, release automation, and deployment strategies.
• Implement GitOps and platform engineering best practices.

Kubernetes and Container Platforms

• Design and manage large-scale GKE environments.
• Standardize container deployment frameworks and operational processes.
• Optimize cluster security, scalability, networking, and performance.
• Define container governance and platform best practices.

Reliability Engineering

• Implement SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Build enterprise monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Lead incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis.
• Improve system reliability and operational efficiency through automation.

Security and Compliance

• Implement DevSecOps controls across the software development lifecycle.
• Design IAM strategies and privileged access controls.
• Ensure alignment with banking, GDPR, and enterprise security requirements.
• Drive vulnerability management, secrets management, and policy-as-code implementations.

Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• Mentor engineers and DevOps teams.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Provide technical governance for cloud adoption initiatives.
• Review designs, conduct architecture assessments, and recommend improvements.

Your Profile:

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Google Cloud Platform

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) • Cloud Build and Cloud Run • Cloud Storage • VPC and network architecture • IAM and security controls • Secret Manager • Cloud Operations Suite, including Monitoring and Logging • Load Balancing • Pub/Sub • BigQuery • Cloud SQL

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform at expert level • Reusable Terraform modules • Remote state management and governance • Policy as Code

Containerization and Orchestration

Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • Service mesh, preferably Istio

CI/CD and Automation

Cloud Build • Jenkins • GitHub Actions • GitLab CI/CD • Argo CD • GitOps frameworks

Scripting and Development

Python • Shell scripting • YAML • REST APIs

Monitoring and Observability

Cloud Monitoring • Cloud Logging • Prometheus • Grafana • OpenTelemetry

Banking and Financial Services Experience

Experience in regulated financial services environments is preferred, including exposure to:

• Financial services
• Investment banking
• Capital markets
• Regulatory reporting
• Compliance and risk platforms

Experience supporting regulated environments and enterprise security standards is highly desirable.

Preferred Certifications:

• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• AWS or Azure certifications as an additional advantage

Key Success Indicators:

• Reduced deployment lead time.
• Increased platform availability and reliability.
• Improved cloud cost optimization.
• Enhanced automation with reduced manual effort.
• Improved security posture and compliance adherence.
• Faster incident detection and recovery.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

A senior technical leader who combines:

• Enterprise cloud architecture expertise
• Deep DevOps and SRE knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management
• Banking domain awareness
• A platform engineering mindset
• Proven experience driving large-scale cloud adoption programs

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• AWS or Azure certifications as an additional advantage

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

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We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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