DevOps Engineer (GCP, K8s)
Posted Today by 1768274006
£571 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Sheffield or Birmingham or Edinburgh
Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer focuses on leveraging GCP and Kubernetes to enhance performance and operational efficiency. The position requires expertise in CI/CD pipeline management and infrastructure-as-code practices. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid model, primarily based in Sheffield, Birmingham, or Edinburgh, for an 11-month contract. This role is classified as inside IR35, with a daily rate of £571.
Key Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues across k8s clusters (networking, autoscaling, resource tuning).
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton).
- Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows (artifact strategy, caching, security gates).
- Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and performance dashboards.
- Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and environment provisioning in GCP.
- Enforce DevSecOps best practices (image hardening, secrets management, SBOM, scanning).
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.
- Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence.
Key Skills:
- Expert Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controllers, pod life cycle, RBAC, networking, ingress, HPA/VPA).
- Expert GCP services (GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM).
- Performance troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning).
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform modules, state management, policy enforcement).
- Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, alert tuning).
- Strong Python (packages, virtual environments, dependency management, performance profiling).
- Strong Jenkins (shared libraries, pipelines-as-code) & Tekton (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers).
- Containerization (Docker image optimization, multi-stage builds, runtime security). Git workflows (branching strategy, release tagging, code review automation). Compliance Awareness.
Salary (Rate): £571 per day
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Description:
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Role: Devops Engineer (GCP, K8s)
Location: Sheffield/Birmingham/Edinburgh
Working Mode: Hybrid (Weekly 3 days Onsite)
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Duration: 11 months
Rate: £571 per day Inside IR35
Core Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues across k8s clusters (networking, autoscaling, resource tuning).
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton).
- Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows (artifact strategy, caching, security gates).
- Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and performance dashboards.
- Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and environment provisioning in GCP.
- Enforce DevSecOps best practices (image hardening, secrets management, SBOM, scanning).
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.
- Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence.
Essential Skills: -
- Expert Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controllers, pod life cycle, RBAC, networking, ingress, HPA/VPA).
- Expert GCP services (GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM).
- Performance troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning).
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform modules, state management, policy enforcement).
- Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, alert tuning).
- Strong Python (packages, virtual environments, dependency management, performance profiling).
- Strong Jenkins (shared libraries, pipelines-as-code) & Tekton (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers).
- Containerization (Docker image optimization, multi-stage builds, runtime security). Git workflows (branching strategy, release tagging, code review automation). Compliance Awareness.
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.