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
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