Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer in Leeds

Overview

Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer. Salary: £92,701 - £109,060. Location: Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Halifax. Hours: Full-time. Working pattern: Hybrid, with at least two office days per week (roughly 40%). Flexible working options available. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

Responsibilities

• Modernise technology platforms using public cloud that is secure, resilient, scalable, and developer‑friendly.
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects and security teams to ensure the platform is reliable, compliant and easy to use.
• Design, engineer and optimise enterprise‑scale GCP infrastructure and networking.
• Develop and review Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / Terraform Cloud.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and Harness.
• Develop automation using Python, Bash and/or Groovy.
• Own cloud services through their full lifecycle (design, build, run, improve).
• Perform code reviews and help drive engineering quality and consistency.
• Work collaboratively with architecture, security and software engineering teams.
• Provide BAU operational support, including incident and problem management.
• Mentor other engineers and support planning and technical decision‑making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments.
• 5+ years’ experience designing and supporting cloud networking (VPC, Interconnect, Firewalls, DNS, NAT, IAM, VPC‑SC).
• 3+ years’ experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience working with Kubernetes / GKE.
• Experience in agile delivery environments (Scrum / Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, security and automation.
• Experience with large‑scale or hybrid GCP environments is a plus; experience with policy as code is a plus.
• Experience using monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring).
• Google Cloud Professional certifications are advantageous.

About the role and opportunities

We’re investing in our people, places and technology to meet the needs of our customers. We’re growing and would love you to be part of the journey.

Diversity, inclusion and supports

We recognise that great talent comes from many backgrounds and encourage applicants with relevant, transferable experience to apply. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

How to apply

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