Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

Job Type: Contract

Location: Dublin / Letterkenny, Ireland — Onsite

Duration: 6 Months

The Role

Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

As a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, automation and operational excellence of cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform. You will help drive cloud transformation, establish DevSecOps standards, and enable secure, resilient and highly available enterprise platforms for a regulated financial-services environment.

Your responsibilities

Design and implement secure, scalable and highly available GCP platforms, including multi-region disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.

Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives, defining reusable platform standards, infrastructure blueprints and governance patterns.

Establish and govern CI/CD, GitOps, environment automation, release automation and deployment strategies.

Automate infrastructure provisioning through Terraform, reusable modules, remote-state governance and policy as code.

Design and manage large-scale GKE environments, including container security, networking, scalability, performance and operational standards.

Implement SRE practices using SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, supported by enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.

Lead incident management, problem management and root-cause analysis, improving reliability and operational efficiency through automation.

Embed DevSecOps controls, IAM, privileged access, secrets management and vulnerability management across the delivery lifecycle.

Ensure alignment with banking, GDPR and enterprise security requirements.

Mentor engineers, collaborate with architects, security, risk and operations teams, and provide technical governance and design assurance.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

7-10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise cloud platform engineering, DevOps or SRE roles.

Deep hands-on expertise in GCP services including GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Operations, Load Balancing, Pub/Sub, BigQuery and Cloud SQL.

Expert-level Terraform experience, including reusable modules, remote-state management, governance and policy as code.

Strong Kubernetes, Docker and Helm expertise, with service-mesh experience such as Istio.

Hands-on CI/CD and GitOps experience using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD and/or Argo CD.

Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, YAML and REST APIs.

Experience with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.

Strong knowledge of cloud security, IAM, privileged access, vulnerability management and secrets management.

Experience delivering secure, resilient platforms in regulated enterprise environments.

Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience

Experience in financial services, investment banking, capital markets, regulatory reporting, compliance or risk platforms.

Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.

AWS or Azure certification as an additional advantage