GCP Devops Engineer

The Role: GCP Devops Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: Hybrid (2 Days onsite in a week)

Job Description:

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IAM components, policies, connectors, microservices, and integrations.
• Enable automated testing, security scanning, and controlled deployments across DEV/TEST/PROD environments.
• Implement continuous improvement to streamline IAM release processes.
• Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible for deploying IAM infrastructure, identity policies, directories, and supporting platforms.
• Ensure consistent, repeatable environments and compliance with architectural standards.
• Develop scripts and automation for account lifecycle operations, access provisioning, and system integrations.
• Deploy IAM services or related microservices on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and serverless environments.
• Manage containerisation, service mesh integrations, certificates, and secrets for IAM workloads.
• Embed security into the build and deployment process, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks.
• Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and IAM security policies.
• Collaborate with IAM architects, security teams, and application owners on design and integration requirements.
• Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, IaC, deployment patterns, and operational processes.

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning) Terraform core, GCP Infra, Policy as code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies,
• Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm / Kustomize, GKE Ops
• CI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategy
• Data pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA / PubSub) – Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoring
• Graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observability
• DevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, compliance
• Release engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentation
• Regionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access