Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior GCP Cloud & DevOps Engineer to join our team in Bradford on a 12-month FTC. This is a hybrid role, with two days in the office and three days working remotely each week.

What will you be doing?

• Own and evolve the end-to-end GCP platform, covering infrastructure design, deployment, lifecycle management, and ongoing optimisation.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure to support AI and data products.
• Lead the architecture and design of cloud-native solutions, ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and consistent product delivery.
• Drive platform reliability and performance through strong observability, monitoring, and AIOps practices.
• Ensure platform security, governance, and compliance, working closely with central Security and adhering to best practices.
• Optimise cloud spend and resource usage, balancing cost efficiency with performance and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, data, and product teams to enable rapid development and innovation.
• Create and maintain clear, high-quality documentation across platforms, services, and data products.
• Define, track, and improve key platform KPIs such as availability, deployment frequency, MTTR, and security posture.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of platform operations.

We tend to look for people with:

Essential:

• Proven experience working in high-performing Platform / DevOps teams
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• At least 5 years experience designing, architecting, and delivering solutions within GCP environments.
• Solid background in DevOps or Platform Engineering, building scalable, automated infrastructure
• Expertise in CI/CD design and implementation (e.g. GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloud Build)
• Experience supporting AI-driven applications, microservices, and API-led architectures
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills using logs, tracing, and observability tools
• Good understanding of cloud networking, security principles, IAM, and VPC design
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, product-led environments with multiple stakeholders

Desirable

• GCP Professional-level certification is highly desirable.
• Experience working with offshore teams or third-party delivery partners
• Exposure to AIOps practices and advanced observability tooling (e.g. OpenTelemetry)
• Experience implementing cloud governance and security frameworks at scale
• Strong awareness of cost optimisation strategies within GCP environments

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more.
• Enjoy your birthday off, plus receive an additional 3 days of annual leave once you reach 5 years of service.
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our car benefit scheme
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• The chance to join an innovative, fast-paced and passionate team

Who we are:

#LibertyBlume a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you’re curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background.

Welcome

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Thanks for your interest in working on our team!!

About Us

We’re on a mission to redefine global business services with our tech-enabled solutions, that deliver efficiency, scale and value for our customers.

With over 20 years of experience, our team of passionate specialists have perfected an approach that deals with the demands of today and the markets of the future, so our customers stay one step ahead and unlock the freedom to grow.

We leverage technology expertise and global perspective, to challenge conventional thinking, transform operational efficiency, and eliminate administrative complexity.

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