Google Cloud Engineer (Public Cloud) in Manchester

• Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established engineering group at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest financial‑services transformations.

We’re modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform, partnering with business and product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for:

• Analytics
• Gen AI / Machine Learning
• Databases
• Application workloads
• Our remit is broad: product curation, data‑warehousing capabilities, landing‑zone engineering, automation, and embedding AI into cloud workflows to improve developer experience, quality and efficiency
• We’re building a cloud platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers – and easy, modern and green for developers
• You’ll drive automation across deployments and operations, and take part in an out‑of‑hours support rota
• You’ll work side‑by‑side with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and partner teams to deliver our roadmap, shape priorities, embed traditional and Gen AI tooling, and unblock delivery
• You’ll also contribute to technical communities and mentor early‑career engineers
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations, including IAM policy, key management, network patterns (PSC/PSA), and observability for services such as Big Query, Composer, Vertex AI, Alloy DB, Spanner and Cloud Run
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, database and serverless products
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Python to automate delivery and reduce manual effort
• Translate threat‑model and policy requirements into policy‑as‑code guardrails (Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / CEL)
• Create and evolve self‑service Golden Paths via Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
• Partner with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulated‑industry standards while maintaining engineering pace
• Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability, including participating in OOH support
• Prototype and productionise Gen AI and agentic‑AI automation (e. g., AI‑assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using tools including Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement of workflows, tools and processes

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
• A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
• Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave.

Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay.

Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.

• Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
• Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Colleague

Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping.

You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.

• Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
• Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme.

You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.

Requirements / Experience

• Dynatrace
• Terraform
• Security tooling (Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz)
• Networking, security, IAM & platform engineering
• Git workflows
• This role focuses on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we’re particularly interested in people with experience in:
• Python
• Policy‑as‑Code (Open Policy Agent)
• CI/CD (Harness / Git Hub Actions)
• Backstage
• GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products
• Cloud Engineer with strong GCP experience, building end‑to‑end infrastructure solutions for engineering teams across the Group
• You’re collaborative, curious and comfortable working across different domains in a fast‑moving platform organisation
• You're passionate about engineering excellence, automation and creating great developer experiences.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go or Bash)
• Experience handling cloud‑service products through their lifecycle
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
• Understanding of configuration‑management tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Harness or similar
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic and evolving environment
• Experience in Platform Engineering with a consistent record of delivering and operating solutions on GCP
• Ability to take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery
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