Job Title: Cloud Engineer - GCP, Python, Terraform

Location: Glasgow

Experience: 8-10 years

Role Summary

We are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, and Terraform to support a large-scale Google Cloud enablement initiative. This role will focus on building secure, scalable, and automated cloud foundations, enabling Vertex AI services, provisioning delivery environments, and implementing the target-state operating model across people, process, and technology.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for engineering reusable cloud infrastructure, automating platform provisioning, embedding governance and controls, and enabling high-quality, production-ready GCP services for enterprise AI/ML workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and automate GCP infrastructure using Terraform and Python.
• Provision and manage cloud environments required for the program, including Production.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, templates, and engineering patterns for scalable GCP adoption.
• Implement cloud services and platform capabilities required to enable Vertex AI APIs and enterprise AI/ML workloads.
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration validation, compliance checks, operational workflows, and platform integrations.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, network, IAM, and platform teams to deliver compliant and production-ready cloud solutions.
• Translate control-plane and operating model requirements into deployable engineering assets and standards.
• Support environment setup, service onboarding, policy alignment, and release readiness for GCP workloads.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, governance, and resiliency requirements, especially for regulated and HCD-sensitive workloads.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure lifecycle management, version control, and release automation.
• Document platform designs, engineering standards, implementation patterns, and operational procedures.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership on cloud engineering best practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Deep experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, module development, and environment provisioning.
• Strong Python development/scripting experience for automation and tooling.
• Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with core GCP services such as networking, compute, IAM, storage, monitoring, and security services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and automated deployment practices.
• Understanding of cloud governance, policy enforcement, secure design, and operational controls.
• Experience designing scalable, maintainable, and reusable cloud engineering solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and technical documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Vertex AI, AI/ML platform enablement, or API-based model integration.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud control planes or multi-cloud platform engineering.
• Familiarity with IAM, networking, security, and policy-as-code concepts.
• Experience in regulated environments such as banking or financial services.
• Knowledge of SRE, observability, and production support considerations for cloud platforms.
• Experience driving platform standardization and engineering operating models.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.