Public Cloud Senior DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud)

Job Description

Public Cloud Senior DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud)

Salary: £70,929.00 - £78,810
Location: Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Halifax & Leeds
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Hybrid – spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at the location above.

Job Description Summary

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

Our core technology focus is the Google Cloud Platform.

We are particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Google Model Armor, VPCSC, Google VPC Firewall, Google Cloud NGFW, GitHub, Terraform, Google Organization Policy, IAM, Service Directory, Automation, AI.

If you’re someone who thrives in collaborative environments, enjoys solving meaningful problems, and wants to make a real impact - this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you'll join a collaborative, agile team that is product focused. You will design and develop features and improvements to our existing products and services. We provide BAU support as well as an on call rota.

· Write and review Infrastructure as Code ensuring it has been written securely

· Operationally support existing products including incidents and inbound customer requests

· Develop and test new features for existing products

· Manage work via Jira tickets

· Automate and utilise AI to drive efficient and cost-effective products for our customers

· Identify opportunities for improvements in our products and services

· Support planning activities and product roadmaps

· Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities

· Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of learning and inclusion

· Be capable of standing in for the Lead Engineer

What you’ll need as a Senior DevOps Engineer:

· A subject matter expert in at least one of our products or technology types (eg. Firewalls). Be able to learn quickly on the job whilst building new skills and technological knowledge around other products

· Ensure that any code or solutions are built in line with our security standards and industry best practice

· Ability to listen, reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion

· Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners

· Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve

· Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team

· Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery

· Be passionate about automating everything

· Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

· A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

· An annual performance-related bonus

· Share schemes including free shares.

· Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

· 25 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

· A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.