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