GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Royal Mail

Job reference: 325329

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

Employment type: Permanent, Full‑time

Salary: Competitive + car allowance, healthcare, potential annual bonus, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension with highly competitive contribution rates.

Benefits:

• Family friendly support – enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Over 800 discounts and offers on goods, holidays and household bills*
• Generous company sick pay
• 24/7 wellbeing services – physical, mental, financial, and social support
• Permission to apply for Army, Reserve, and veteran roles – Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant

*Terms apply.

Job Purpose

Act as a subject‑matter expert in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and deliver strategic infrastructure initiatives, maintain service availability, and manage cloud budgets exceeding £10 million.

Play a lead role in the RM Cloud Centre of Excellence, drive value from cloud technologies and ensure alignment with architectural and security best practices.

Key Accountabilities

• Act as technical authority for GCP platforms and tenant‑level management, ensuring services adhere to the Cloud Adoption Framework.

• Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – design, publish, and maintain Terraform code via Azure DevSecOps pipelines; keep code in a central Git repository.

• Automate self‑service capabilities for product and engineering teams to accelerate DevSecOps transformation.

• Develop and maintain Cloud blueprints, guidelines, standards, patterns, and policy to foster consistency across Azure cloud technologies.

• Participate in the Cloud Centre of Excellence – collaborate with CCoE members across technology functions.

• Define and publish detailed Cloud Roadmaps, prioritise initiatives, and balance risk, cost and service performance.

• Embed FinOps culture to cost‑control cloud resources; report and analyse cloud spend.

• Handle incident, change and service improvement plans; act as central point of contact for GCP‑related decisions.

• Drive security, providing best‑practice controls in partnership with the RM Cyber team and balancing user experience.

• Support professional accreditation and audit compliance.

• Engage stakeholders to champion cloud solutions, provide workshops, events and influence technology strategy.

Core Competencies

• Google Cloud Platform – VPC, Firewalls, Service Accounts, Interconnects
• Cloud agnostic concepts – Guard Rails, FinOps, RBAC, CASB, SDCI
• Azure DevOps – pipelines, Azure AD, Azure Hybrid Benefit
• ITIL Foundation (or equivalent)

Next Steps

The selection process will include a face‑to‑face or virtual interview focusing on competency and role‑specific questions.

We welcome diverse candidates. If your experience is slightly different from the full criteria but you are confident in your relevant skills, we would love to learn more.

We commit to inclusion and support belonging; we encourage a positive work environment. We also support adjustments during the application and hiring process – please let us know within your application if required.

Royal Mail is a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant and welcomes applications from ex‑Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information about Royal Mail Group and our values, please visit https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/.