Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer (GCP / Kubernetes)Location: Fully Remote (occasional travel to Hertfordshire if required)Contract: Initial 4–5 month contractStart: Mid April
We are supporting a major global IT services provider delivering platform engineering services for one of the world’s leading international financial institutions. They are seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build, operate and industrialise modern cloud-native platforms across hybrid and public cloud environments. This role sits within a high-impact platform engineering programme focused on automation, reliability engineering and secure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale digital transformation.
Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Operations
- Build, operate and continuously improve lab and production platforms across Google Cloud (GKE / GKE On-Prem / GDC).
- Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, including:
- Cluster lifecycle management
- Upgrades and patching
- Day 0 / Day 1 / Day 2 automation
- Drift remediation and reliability engineering
- Implement GitOps-first operations using Argo CD.
- Enforce platform standards, configuration baselines and compliance evidence collection.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Engineer consistent infrastructure across public and private cloud environments using:
- Terraform Enterprise
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Metalsoft
- Develop and maintain multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Build reusable Golden Path modules and templated infrastructure stacks.
Security, Zero Trust & Secrets Management
- Embed Zero Trust principles including MFA, IP allow-listing, IAP and HA VPN.
- Implement enterprise secrets lifecycle management using Akeyless.
- Integrate compliance controls, CI policy gates and audit trails aligned with financial regulatory requirements
Required Skills & Experience Expert Level
- CI/CD and IaC automation using:
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform Enterprise
- Ansible Automation Platform
- GitOps operations using Argo CD
- Kubernetes platform lifecycle management
- Terraform workspace and module design across cloud environments
- Secrets lifecycle and vault patterns (e.g. Akeyless)
- Multi-stage infrastructure and application pipelines
- Building reusable Golden Path infrastructure modules
Practitioner Level
- Kubernetes operations and patch automation
- Drift remediation and reliability engineering
- Secret rotation automation and compliance evidence collection
- Bare-metal infrastructure automation using Metalsoft
- Network and perimeter security controls (MFA, IAP, HA VPN, IP allow listing)
- CI policy checks and security gating
- Infrastructure cost-aware provisioning
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