GCP Architect at Intelstack, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

Job Title: GCP Architect

Job Type: Contract · Inside IR35

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh — Hybrid (2 days a week)

Duration: 12 months

The Rol

eWe're looking to recruit an Infrastructure engineering lead within the Public Cloud Services Compute (GCP DCX) team, The key attributes to the role ar

eLeadership qualities, guiding/managing/assisting the team of 30+ engineer

sManage multi partner, permanent colleague

sSomebody experienced in Product Ownership, set the tech strategy, roadmap and engineering priorities, quarterly business planning for GCP DCX (Data Centre Extension) – IaaS Platfor

mTechnical Competencie

sStrong Tech background in GCP Infra, IaaS, VM, DevOps, Terraform, Automatio

nGCP DCX - Consist of GCP VMs, Iaa

CGoogle Cloud Backgroun

dSenior Technology Person (50% Tech Leadership/Consulting, 50% Hands on engineering

)
The scope of service includ

esDesign, Build, and Operate: Deliver and maintain secure, automated Google compute capabilities, supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows virtual machine and broader compute and networking products and configuration

s.Platform Enablement: Enable product teams to deliver Google IaaS solutions at pace, leveraging reusable patterns and robust integration tool

s.Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing Google resources, ensuring repeatability and complianc

e.Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices and controls throughout the platform lifecycle, safeguarding organisational and customer dat

a.Performance & Reliability: Define, monitor, and operate against service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs), ensuring high availability, performance, and fault toleranc

e.Continuous Improvement: Drive automation, observability, and performance tuning to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliabilit

y.Collaboration: Work closely with architecture and feature teams to evolve the cloud roadmap and platform products, contributing to documentation and enablemen

t.Team Leadership, Mentoring & Standards: Lead, motivate, and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers and uphold engineering standards, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvemen

t.
Your responsibilit

iesGoogle Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities, with a focus on Google compute products and servic

es.Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform (minimum), Jenkins, and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkin

s).Networking & Security: Experience with GCP Cloud Armor, GCP Networking, and embedding secure-by-design controls from design to runti

me.Automation & Observability: Implementing actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil. Defining and operating against SLOs/SL

Is.Scripting & Tooling: Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, Harness, and Backstage is desirab

le.Team Leadership, Collaboration & Mentoring: Ability to lead and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers, ensuring cross-team collaboration and mentori

ng.Certifications: Relevant GCP certifications are desira

ble
Key Attributes for the

• roleLeadership qualities, guiding/managing/assisting the team of 30+ engin
• eersManage WIPRO, LTC and Perm collea
• guesSet the tech strategy, roadmap and engineering priorities, quarterly business planning for GCP
• DCXRelationship Management, Influential, strong interpersonal sk

ills
Technical Compete

• nciesStrong Tech background in GCP Infra, IaaS, VM, DevOps, Terraform, Autom
• ationGCP DCX - Consist of GCP VMs,
• IaaCGoogle Cloud Backg
• roundHands on Engineering Person (50% Leadership/Consulting, 50% Hands on enginee