GCP DevOps Engineer (Security Cleared)

About Us: 

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, is a technology consultancy and digital transformation partner that helps organisations solve complex challenges through strategy, design, engineering, and delivery.

We work closely with our clients to deliver secure, accessible, user-focused services that evolve with their needs. By combining deep technical expertise with people-centred design, we create solutions that deliver meaningful, lasting impact.

Our consultants partner directly with client teams, embedding into organisations to understand their goals, challenges, and users. This collaborative approach enables us to deliver tailored solutions that drive measurable outcomes across public and private sectors.

Past and present clients include the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UEFA, International Olympic Committee, and Mercedes-Benz. Our services span the full digital delivery lifecycle, including architecture, engineering, delivery management, user-centred design, business analysis, data, DevOps, and AI.

We operate as a collaborative and inclusive organisation that empowers our people to take ownership, innovate, and develop their expertise. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and social mobility, while creating opportunities for our teams to work on meaningful projects that deliver lasting impact.

About You:

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Security Cleared DevOps Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. This role requires an active security clearance and experience working within regulated or security-sensitive environments.

You will work across GCP infrastructure, automation, networking, security, and DevOps, helping to build and maintain highly available, resilient, and compliant cloud platforms. The role is suited to an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and working with modern cloud technologies in environments where security and reliability are critical.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable and highly available GCP infrastructure.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and other automation tools.
• Develop, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Cloud Build.
• Automate deployment, configuration management and operational processes using scripting languages such as Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Manage GCP services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM and VPC networking.
• Implement containerisation and orchestration solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting and observability using Google Cloud Operations Suite and other monitoring platforms.
• Apply security best practices across cloud infrastructure, including IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption and vulnerability management.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
• Collaborate with development, security and architecture teams to embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity solutions.
• Ensure cloud environments comply with applicable security policies, governance requirements and operational standards.
• Contribute to technical documentation, operational runbooks and knowledge sharing across the team.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Proven commercial experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Practical experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration, networking, DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls and load balancing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and container-based application deployments.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash or equivalent.
• Experience with Git-based version control and collaborative software development workflows.
• Understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, encryption and secure configuration practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and production incident resolution.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and modern DevOps principles.
• Active Security Clearance is essential

Desirable Skills

• Experience deploying and managing workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Google Cloud certifications, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect.
• Experience with Google Cloud Build, Artifact Registry and Cloud Deploy.
• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps tooling, including SAST, DAST, container image scanning and dependency scanning.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code, automated compliance and security controls.
• Experience working in regulated, government, defence or other security-sensitive environments.
• Knowledge of cloud landing zones, organisation policies, Shared VPC and service perimeter controls.
• Experience with service reliability engineering (SRE), SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, NCSC guidance and relevant UK Government security requirements.

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
• Contributory Pension
• EAP with Help@Hand
• Gym Membership Benefits
• Flexible Benefits Allowance
• Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes
• Flexible Working
• Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Diversity and Inclusion

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals, where all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs.

Encouraging high social mobility is really important to us. We foster an inclusive culture by welcoming different perspectives, enabling equitable opportunities and promoting open dialogue. This commitment is reflected in initiatives such as our gender diversity group and our focus on mental health and wellbeing. Whatever stage you are at, you will find an environment where you can thrive.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments to be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive, enabling all candidates to demonstrate their skills, experience and potential.