Google DCX Engineering Lead

Job Title: Google DCX Engineering Lead

Job Type: Contract · Inside IR35

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh — Hybrid (2 days a week)

Duration: 12 months

The Role

We're looking to recruit an Infrastructure engineering lead within the Public Cloud Services Compute (GCP DCX) team, The key attributes to the role are

Leadership qualities, guiding/managing/assisting the team of 30+ engineers

Manage multi partner, permanent colleagues

Somebody experienced in Product Ownership, set the tech strategy, roadmap and engineering priorities, quarterly business planning for GCP DCX (Data Centre Extension) – IaaS Platform

Technical Competencies

Strong Tech background in GCP Infra, IaaS, VM, DevOps, Terraform, Automation

GCP DCX - Consist of GCP VMs, IaaC

Google Cloud Background

Senior Technology Person (50% Tech Leadership/Consulting, 50% Hands on engineering)

The scope of service includes

Design, Build, and Operate: Deliver and maintain secure, automated Google compute capabilities, supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows virtual machine and broader compute and networking products and configurations.

Platform Enablement: Enable product teams to deliver Google IaaS solutions at pace, leveraging reusable patterns and robust integration tools.

Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing Google resources, ensuring repeatability and compliance.

Security & Compliance: Embed security best practices and controls throughout the platform lifecycle, safeguarding organisational and customer data.

Performance & Reliability: Define, monitor, and operate against service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs), ensuring high availability, performance, and fault tolerance.

Continuous Improvement: Drive automation, observability, and performance tuning to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.

Collaboration: Work closely with architecture and feature teams to evolve the cloud roadmap and platform products, contributing to documentation and enablement.

Team Leadership, Mentoring & Standards: Lead, motivate, and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers and uphold engineering standards, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Your responsibilities

Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience designing, building, and operating secure, automated cloud platform capabilities, with a focus on Google compute products and services.

Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform (minimum), Jenkins, and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins).

Networking & Security: Experience with GCP Cloud Armor, GCP Networking, and embedding secure-by-design controls from design to runtime.

Automation & Observability: Implementing actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil. Defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs.

Scripting & Tooling: Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, Harness, and Backstage is desirable.

Team Leadership, Collaboration & Mentoring: Ability to lead and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers, ensuring cross-team collaboration and mentoring.

Certifications: Relevant GCP certifications are desirable

Key Attributes for the role

• Leadership qualities, guiding/managing/assisting the team of 30+ engineers
• Manage WIPRO, LTC and Perm colleagues
• Set the tech strategy, roadmap and engineering priorities, quarterly business planning for GCP DCX
• Relationship Management, Influential, strong interpersonal skills

Technical Competencies

• Strong Tech background in GCP Infra, IaaS, VM, DevOps, Terraform, Automation
• GCP DCX - Consist of GCP VMs, IaaC
• Google Cloud Background

Hands on Engineering Person (50% Leadership/Consulting, 50% Hands on engineering)