Public Cloud – Google Cloud Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will help build and operate a fast, secure, and green GCP-based cloud platform for engineering teams across the Group. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable infrastructure, automation, and GenAI-enabled tooling while maintaining security and compliance. The role offers exposure to analytics, AI/ML, databases, and serverless products, with opportunities to shape the platform’s evolution and developer experience. You’ll work in a fast-moving environment and contribute to a major technology transformation in banking.

Pay / Benefits

• performance-based share bonus
• flexible benefits pot
• generous pension contribution
• private health cover
• up to 30 days annual leave
• colleague share schemes

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations (IAM, KMS, network patterns) and observability for services like BigQuery, Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud Run
• Create and evolve reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, databases 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 self-service Golden Paths via Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
• Collaborate with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulated standards while maintaining pace
• Improve operations through monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability; participate in out-of-hours support
• Prototype and productionise GenAI/agentic-AI automation (AI-assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and continuously improve workflows, tools and processes

Key requirements

• GCP platform engineering experience with delivering and operating solutions
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions, Harness or similar
• Experience with configuration-management tools for infra automation and policy enforcement
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Proficiency in Python, Go or Bash
• Ownership mentality for features/products from development to delivery
• Experience managing cloud-service products through their lifecycle
• Strong communication skills; able to explain technical concepts clearly

• collaborative
• curious
• strong communication
• GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products
• Networking, security, IAM & platform engineering
• Terraform

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