Public Cloud; GCP Engineer

Join a forward-thinking team at the heart of digital transformation in the legal tech space. We’re looking for a skilled Public Cloud Engineer with a strong background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to help shape and deliver scalable, secure, and innovative cloud solutions.

As part of our Public Cloud & Identity Platform team
, you’ll collaborate across disciplines to build and support enterprise‑grade platforms using GCP and Azure. This is a high‑impact role where your expertise will directly influence how we deliver services to internal teams and clients globally.

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure with a focus on automation, scalability and resilience.
• Contribute to our ‘Cloud First’ strategy through lifecycle management and service planning.
• Define and uphold platform standards, ensuring secure and cost‑effective solutions.
• Collaborate with developers, architects and stakeholders to deliver high‑performing cloud services.
• Support incident and problem management, and ensure systems are documented and evergreen.

• 3–5+ years’ hands‑on experience with GCP (Azure and AWS exposure a plus).
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Azure Dev Ops), CI/CD, containerisation, scripting and version control.
• Experience in fast‑paced Agile environments and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication and problem‑solving skills.
• A proactive, inclusive and delivery‑focused mindset.

Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing.

Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence).You

would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.