Google Cloud Engineer Job at Barclays (Knutsford)

Google Cloud Engineer

Barclays

Location:
United Kingdom , Knutsford

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

Join us at Barclays as a Google Cloud Engineer as part of a team designing, building, and evolving our secure, scalable GCP landing zone. In this role you will develop, mature, and maintain the platform, ensuring it meets the needs of our business and customers. Working closely with the engineering lead, product owners and technical teams, you will apply modern development practices to deliver a robust foundation for our cloud services, enabling innovation and efficiency across the bank.

Job Responsibility:

Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use
Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages
Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines
Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats
Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth

Requirements:

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Implementation & Operations - Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and operating GCP services at scale, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource management
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Proficient at writing, modularizing, and managing Terraform code for complex cloud environments, including state management and CI/CD integration
DevOps & CI/CD using GitLab - Experience setting up GitLab (or similar) pipelines for automated provisioning, testing, and deployment of cloud infrastructure

Nice to have:

Cloud Security & Compliance - Familiar with Cloud / GCP security best practices for landing zones
Agile Delivery - Experience delivering projects using Agile/Kanban methodologies
Multi-Cloud Experience (AWS and Azure) - Experience with AWS and Azure in addition to GCP, including networking, identity federation, and workload migration

What we offer:

Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 01, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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