Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)
About Harnham
Harnham is the global leader in Data & Analytics recruitment. We partner with organisations across cloud, AI, data engineering, and technology to connect top contract talent with transformational projects.
About the Client
Our client is a specialist consulting organisation delivering a high-profile cloud and AI transformation programme for a major enterprise organisation. The project focuses on building secure, scalable infrastructure that enables next-generation data products and services.
Role Details
• Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)
• Location: Remote (US based)
• Pay Rate: $65-$90/hr
• Contract Length: 4 Months
• Start Date: August 24th
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the cloud platform foundation for a large-scale enterprise data initiative. This role will focus heavily on infrastructure automation, platform engineering, security, observability, and deployment automation.
The successful candidate will help establish a secure, highly available cloud environment while creating the tooling and processes needed to support ongoing delivery and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple services and applications
• Implement cloud security, IAM, networking, and secrets management controls
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and operational observability capabilities
• Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and deployment processes
• Create operational runbooks and support knowledge-transfer activities
Requirements
Must Have
• Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Advanced Terraform experience including state management
• Experience building modern CI/CD pipelines
• Containerisation experience using Docker and cloud-native platforms
• Strong cloud security, IAM, networking, and secrets management knowledge
• Monitoring and observability experience using cloud-native or third-party tooling
Nice to Have
• MLOps or AI platform support experience
• Experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Exposure to Snowflake environments
• Cross-cloud experience working across GCP and AWS
• Experience supporting high-scale data processing platforms
Apply
If you enjoy building cloud platforms from the ground up and want to play a key role in a major cloud transformation programme, we'd be interested in speaking with you.
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