PRIMUS Global Solutions (PRIMUS UK & Europe)
GCP Cloud Engineer(Sheffield / Birmingham / Edinburgh)
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This role is for a GCP Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, specifically in financial services. The 6+ month contract is hybrid, based in Edinburgh, Sheffield, or Birmingham, offering a pay rate of "TBD". Key skills include GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, and security compliance.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
October 1, 2025
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databases #Linux #Python #Splunk #Monitoring #PostgreSQL #Cybersecurity #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Security #Cloud #Automation #Grafana #Golang #Compliance #Logging #Microservices #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #DevOps #Programming #Jenkins #Scripting #Terraform #Kubernetes #API (Application Programming Interface) #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Prometheus #Ansible #Agile #REST API #GitLab
Role description
Job Title: GCP Cloud Engineer
Work Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid: 2–3 weeks onsite)
Other Locations: Sheffield / Birmingham / Edinburgh
Contract: 6+ months (extensions based on performance)
We are seeking an experienced GCP Cloud Engineer to join a leading global financial institution. This role involves building, deploying, and managing cloud services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while ensuring performance, security, and compliance in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Deploy, configure, and secure backend REST API services using CSP native services.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) with full traceability and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor, optimize, and secure GCP cloud infrastructure for cost-efficiency and high availability.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to meet governance and compliance standards.
• Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes for incidents and bottlenecks.
Required Skills & Experience
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, focusing on large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven expertise with GCP, including networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL), and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, automation scripting.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, microservices, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and enterprise logging/monitoring (ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Security knowledge: encryption, authentication, compliance in regulated industries.
• Excellent communication and proven delivery of complex projects.
Desirable Skills
• Experience in financial services / banking.
• Programming in Python and Golang.
• GCP Certifications (Cloud Engineer / Cloud DevOps Engineer).
• Familiarity with audit, governance, and risk management in enterprise systems.
Keywords / Hashtags
#GCP #CloudEngineer #GoogleCloud #DevOps #Terraform #Ansible #Kubernetes #CI/CD #Python #Golang #PostgreSQL #CloudEngineering #HybridWork #FinancialServices #InfrastructureAsCode #Microservices #Serverless #CloudSecurity #EdinburghJobs #SheffieldJobs #BirminghamJobs #ContractJobs #TechJobsUK #GCPJobs #CloudDevOps #CloudInfrastructure #Agile #APIs #CloudCompliance
Would you like me to also make a short LinkedIn-style version (under 6–7 lines, punchy, keyword-rich) for social media posting alongside this detailed one?
Job Title: GCP Cloud Engineer
Work Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid: 2–3 weeks onsite)
Other Locations: Sheffield / Birmingham / Edinburgh
Contract: 6+ months (extensions based on performance)
We are seeking an experienced GCP Cloud Engineer to join a leading global financial institution. This role involves building, deploying, and managing cloud services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while ensuring performance, security, and compliance in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Deploy, configure, and secure backend REST API services using CSP native services.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) with full traceability and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor, optimize, and secure GCP cloud infrastructure for cost-efficiency and high availability.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to meet governance and compliance standards.
• Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes for incidents and bottlenecks.
Required Skills & Experience
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, focusing on large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven expertise with GCP, including networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL), and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, automation scripting.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, microservices, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and enterprise logging/monitoring (ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Security knowledge: encryption, authentication, compliance in regulated industries.
• Excellent communication and proven delivery of complex projects.
Desirable Skills
• Experience in financial services / banking.
• Programming in Python and Golang.
• GCP Certifications (Cloud Engineer / Cloud DevOps Engineer).
• Familiarity with audit, governance, and risk management in enterprise systems.
Keywords / Hashtags
#GCP #CloudEngineer #GoogleCloud #DevOps #Terraform #Ansible #Kubernetes #CI/CD #Python #Golang #PostgreSQL #CloudEngineering #HybridWork #FinancialServices #InfrastructureAsCode #Microservices #Serverless #CloudSecurity #EdinburghJobs #SheffieldJobs #BirminghamJobs #ContractJobs #TechJobsUK #GCPJobs #CloudDevOps #CloudInfrastructure #Agile #APIs #CloudCompliance
Would you like me to also make a short LinkedIn-style version (under 6–7 lines, punchy, keyword-rich) for social media posting alongside this detailed one?
