GCP Senior Devops Consultant in Sheffield

The Role

• Lead the design, automation, and operation of scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud, leveraging Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and DevSecOps practices to enable reliable and secure application deployments.

• Manage enterprise-grade CI/CD ecosystems using Jenkins, Docker, Helm, and Git-based workflows while integrating quality and security scanning tools.

• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to optimize platform reliability, performance, and automation across hybrid and public cloud environments.

Your responsibilities:

• Deep knowledge on Google Cloud Platform - GCP Certification and Kubernetes Cloud Certification

• Write and maintain high-quality Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Ansible, Python, Terraform).

• Unix administration skills. Bash/shell scripting.

• CI/CD Tools and Architecture: Proficiency with tools like Jenkins and a strong understanding of pipeline service design patterns.

• Expert level Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts expertise for managing API workload builds, integrations and deployments.

• Very good understanding on Google cloud services such as GKE, MIGs, CloudSQL, MemoryStore including integration patterns with GKE workloads.

• Good understanding on monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana for tooling integrations

• Well conversant on git branching strategy to manage builds using Java Maven, NPM build tools and repositories like Nexus, GCR

• Kubernetes and Hosting VMs: Deep knowledge and hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters or virtual machines (GKE).

• Enterprise DevOps Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise DevOps environments, including networks and firewalls.

• Work with hybrid cloud and public cloud.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment processes.

• Hands on experience on automation of build, deployments, code scanning tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx, container scan, automation of tooling integration using web services via pipelines.

• Hands on skills for building Jenkins scripted pipelines using groovy language along with as multi-branching, web hooks, credentials, permissions usage.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE & Kubernetes

• Docker, Helm Charts & Containerization

• Terraform, Ansible, Python & Shell Scripting

• Jenkins CI/CD, Groovy Pipelines & Git

• DevSecOps (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Container Scanning)

• Linux/Unix Administration & Troubleshooting

• Datadog, Grafana & AppDynamics Monitoring

• Hybrid Cloud, Networking & Firewall Concepts

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• GCP/CKA/CKAD Certifications, CloudSQL, Memorystore, Enterprise Networking, API Platforms, Hybrid Cloud, SRE, Agile Delivery.