GCP Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud is a key strategic platform for Admiral, hosting and delivering mission critical workloads and solutions consumed by customers and internal teams.  Adoption and utilisation of the Google platform is accelerating and will continue to do so during 2023 and beyond.  Admiral is expanding its Google Platform team with passionate and motivated cloud engineers who are focussed on delivering innovative, secure technical solutions through engineering excellence.

Who are the Google Platform Team?

The Admiral Google Platform team is comprised of highly skilled and motivated engineers who are responsible for the ongoing design, development and operations of core Google platform infrastructure services.  As Google cloud experts we also provide technical guidance, solution development support, automated infrastructure deployment and cloud security best practices on a consultancy basis to internal product and architecture teams looking to leverage Google cloud to host their solutions. 

The role

As a cloud engineer you will:

• Play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful design, development and deployment of new cloud-based solutions, the migration and modernisation of existing solutions in line with Admiral’s cloud strategy.
• Create Infrastructure as code modules and deployment pipelines that can be applied and re-used across the enterprise.
• Deliver on HA/DR, security, capacity, and compliance strategies for existing and new applications.
• Support, optimize and enhance our existing GCP based solutions and workloads.
• Drive effectiveness, efficiency, and continuous improvement using automation and adoption of appropriate and approved tools.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and product teams to ensure effective designs and application of the cloud and hosting services.
• Evangelise topics such as monitoring, performance, and reliability throughout our IT support and delivery teams.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Required skills & experience

• Worked in complex hybrid multi-cloud environment.
• Design and implementation of infrastructure, applications and GCP solutions at enterprise level.
• Experience of infrastructure as code development and deployment including but not limited to Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Experience of automation & Orchestration tools such as Azure DevOps, Rest APIs, Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting and coding knowledge (Python, Bash, Powershell etc).
• Solid understanding of cloud services and cloud service provider capabilities including
  • Cloud networking
  • Cloud security and governance
  • Containerisation and orchestration with Kubernetes
  • Serverless platforms and services
  • Hybrid cloud architectures
  • Cloud operations and administration
• In-depth understanding of cloud security concepts and practices.
• Experience with datacentre migration, cloud migration, integration, and consolidation efforts.
• Authoring and maintaining of infrastructure standards and solution design documentation.
• Worked in Agile team following agile methodologies and practices in particular SCRUM.

The Ideal Candidate

• Has strong infrastructure as code and automation skills.
• Embraces a culture of continuous learning and self-improvement.
• Applies a creative & structured approach to problem solving.
• Innovative and pragmatic, seeks to create and improve technical solutions and processes that result in measurable business value.
• Ensures that security posture is not an afterthought and is ‘baked in’ to all solution aspects from conception through to implementation.
• Adopts an Architects mindset (optimal technology choices, minimise tech debt, focus on reuse, standardisation).
• Is an excellent communicator, can articulate technical concepts and topics to non-technical audiences both in writing, in diagrams and in person.
• Is confident of their skills, abilities, willing to mentor and knowledge share with others.
• Can work confidently and effectively in a geographically dispersed team.

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.