GCP Cloud Engineer Lead

Join us as a GCP Cloud Engineer Lead, to help design and deliver innovative cloud solutions for Barclays.

This role sits within our Cloud Platform Engineering team, which is responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments for business-critical applications. You will play an important part in advancing cloud adoption and operational excellence, supporting engineers and shaping approaches for our Internet-facing platforms.

To be successful as a GCP Cloud Engineering Lead, you should have experience with:

• Architecting, deploying and operating cloud services at scale, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource handling.
• Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
• Designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure using tools such as Git Lab and programming languages like Python.
• Ability to mentor and coach team members, encourage collaboration, and promote best practices.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices for Internet-facing environments, particularly within GCP.
• Experience with multi-cloud platforms and Kubernetes orchestration, focusing on security, high availability, and performance
• Ability to lead and support teams, foster collaboration, and deliver using Agile methodologies.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Knutsford.

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

• Build Engineering:
  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management:
  Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• 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, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• 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 via a data driven approach.
• 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.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/ changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical…