Spectrum It Recruitment: Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

remote-job.net Job Summary: Salary: 88,000-105,300 Weekly hours: Full-time Recommended experience: Senior Recommended education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Industry: E‑Commerce / Marketplace Main responsibilities: Automation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines. Scaling and optimization of infrastructure (reliability, performance). Implementation of IaC and operation of Kubernetes clusters. Main requirements: Experience with GCP as DevOps/SRE. Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes/container deployments. Senior-level technical problem-solving skills and a start-up mentality. About the company Location: Kent, United Kingdom. A fast-growing marketplace aiming to advance digital marketplace customer services and put independent sellers and consumers at the centre of success. The company was recently recognised by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing e‑commerce companies in Europe and has received multiple awards in the tech and marketplace sectors. The company is in a scaling phase with global growth plans and follows a remote-first working approach; there is also a modern office available near Bournemouth, Dorset. Tasks Optimize and automate software delivery pipelines (CI/CD). Improve reliability, performance and scalability of infrastructure and systems. Design, implement and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and Kubernetes environments. Make cost-conscious scaling decisions and optimise infrastructure usage. Continuous improvement across the software lifecycle and close collaboration within the engineering team. Requirements Senior-level experience as a DevOps Engineer or SRE. Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Good knowledge of Terraform and Ansible. Experience with Kubernetes, container builds and deployment via CI/CD. Commercial awareness regarding scaling costs vs. utilisation of existing infrastructure. Desirable: Knowledge of Nginx, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL (e.g. Couchbase), RabbitMQ, SOLR and networking technologies (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTPS, DNS). Benefits Remote-first working model with flexible home office option. Modern, fully equipped office near Bournemouth (optional). Attractive salary package (approx. £75,000–£90,000) plus additional benefits. Work in a fast-growing, award-winning marketplace company with significant impact per team member.