GCP Site Reliability Engineer

Join Barclays as a GCP Site Reliability Engineer where you’ll help build and support a brand-new Google Cloud Platform capability, enabling modern API management. This role focuses on platform reliability, architecture, monitoring and automation, requiring a strong development engineering mindset and a growing focus on AI.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and operating GCP services at scale, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource management — able to guide engineers and review their work for quality and compliance.
• Expert-level skills writing, modularising, and managing Terraform code for complex cloud environments, including state management and CI/CD integration.
• Experience setting up GitLab pipelines for automated provisioning, testing, and deployment of cloud infrastructure.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Familiarity with Aware Cloud/GCP security best practices for landing zones.
• Proven track record in leading cross-functional engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering projects using Agile/Kanban methodologies.
• Experience designing and integrating landing zones or foundational platforms across AWS and Azure in addition to GCP, including networking, identity federation, and workload migration.

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.

The successful candidate can be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall) or Glasgow Campus.