Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)
Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP) About Harnham Harnham is the global leader in Data & Analytics recruitment. We partner with organisations across cloud, AI, data engineering, and technology to connect top contract talent with transformational projects. About the Client Our client is a specialist consulting organisation delivering a high-profile cloud and AI transformation programme for a major enterprise organisation. The project focuses on building secure, scalable infrastructure that enables next-generation data products and services. Role Details
- Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)
- Location: Remote (US based)
- Pay Rate: $65-$90/hr
- Contract Length: 4 Months
- Start Date: August 24th
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the cloud platform foundation for a large-scale enterprise data initiative. This role will focus heavily on infrastructure automation, platform engineering, security, observability, and deployment automation. The successful candidate will help establish a secure, highly available cloud environment while creating the tooling and processes needed to support ongoing delivery and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Design and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple services and applications
- Implement cloud security, IAM, networking, and secrets management controls
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and operational observability capabilities
- Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and deployment processes
- Create operational runbooks and support knowledge-transfer activities
Requirements
Must Have
- Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
- Advanced Terraform experience including state management
- Experience building modern CI/CD pipelines
- Containerisation experience using Docker and cloud-native platforms
- Strong cloud security, IAM, networking, and secrets management knowledge
- Monitoring and observability experience using cloud-native or third-party tooling
Nice to Have
- MLOps or AI platform support experience
- Experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Exposure to Snowflake environments
- Cross-cloud experience working across GCP and AWS
- Experience supporting high-scale data processing platforms
Apply If you enjoy building cloud platforms from the ground up and want to play a key role in a major cloud transformation programme, we'd be interested in speaking with you. WE WILL NOT BE ENGAGING WITH THIRD PARTIES FOR THIS SEARCH