Senior GCP Platform Engineer - up to £95k + Bonus - Hybrid

Senior GCP Platform Engineer Salary: Up to £95,000 + Bonus + Benefits Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester or Edinburgh - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite) Working Hours: 40 hours per week - Full time Job Type: Permanent

A globally established organisation is seeking an experienced Senior GCP Platform Engineer to help build and evolve enterprise-scale Google Cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities.

This Senior GCP Platform Engineer role will focus on delivering scalable cloud products, modern infrastructure-as-code solutions and secure platform engineering practices across a large-scale cloud transformation environment.

Responsibilities for the Senior GCP Platform Engineer

Design, build and support scalable Google Cloud infrastructure and platform solutions

Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Terraform Cloud

Curate and manage enterprise-grade GCP cloud products and services

Build automation workflows and tooling using Python scripting

Support and optimise GKE, Kubernetes and Istio Service Mesh environments

Audit and improve existing Terraform modules and state management

Implement secure, policy-driven infrastructure using Sentinel / OPA

Support CI/CD integration and deployment automation across cloud platforms

Enforce governance, compliance and security controls across GCP environments

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve cloud adoption and operational efficiency

Essential Skills for the Senior GCP Platform Engineer

Strong experience across GCP Cloud Engineering and DevOps

Strong hands-on experience with Terraform / Terraform Cloud

Experience with Python scripting and automation

Experience with GKE, Kubernetes and Istio Service Mesh

Experience with CI/CD tooling including; Jenkins, Harness & GitHub

Experience implementing Policy as Code using Sentinel or OPA

Strong understanding of secure cloud governance and GCP organisational policies

GCP and Terraform certifications highly beneficial

Desirable Skills for the Senior GCP Platform Engineer

Experience acting as a GCP Cloud SME

Experience guiding cloud architecture and platform strategy

Exposure to cloud engineering platforms such as Backstage

Experience within large-scale enterprise cloud transformation programmes

If you are an experienced Senior GCP Platform Engineer looking to shape modern cloud infrastructure and enterprise DevOps capabilities, this role offers strong technical ownership and exposure to large-scale cloud engineering initiatives.