Job Description – Cloud Engineer
Cloud Engineer Contract – Statement of Work
Outside IR35 (confirmed by Government website employment check)
Date: 20th March 2025
Term: 6 months term
Agreed day rate: £500 pd +VAT
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join a forward-thinking team, work with the latest technologies, and contribute to the success of our large-scale transformation programme. If you're passionate about DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation, we want to hear from you!
About the job
Who we are looking for
A Cloud Platform Engineer, who will help to set up our Google Cloud environments from scratch. You will have a passion for working on innovative initiatives and will make an immediate impact to the Business by bringing your own experience to a challenging but vibrant environment. By training and developing the existing team members, you will leave a lasting legacy at Billing Finance.
Why Join?
- Be the first Cloud Engineer at Billing Finance and be a key part of helping us set up our Cloud infrastructure.
- Transition legacy systems to a cutting-edge data platform.
- We will have both GCP for our data platform and Azure for business operational systems.
- Work with a highly motivated team to create a truly technology enabled business.
Your Role:
- Support the build and maintenance of Cloud platforms (predominately GCP)
- Taking accountability for the end-to-end delivery of public cloud pathfinder initiatives.
- Work across continuous integration, development, build, and deployment using automation and cloud technologies to support the growth of DevOps tooling
- Build automation jobs for CI/CD development, build, and deployment of applications on Cloud.
- Support the build and maintenance of Cloud platforms and manage complex infrastructure environments.
- Collaborate across the team and our SaaS providers to identify improvements and drive them to resolution using cutting-edge CI/CD technologies.
- Support test environments, troubleshoot issues, and provide seamless DevOps delivery of infrastructure changes from development through to production.
- Working with and influencing others to advocate and lead technical aspects of our journey to the public cloud.
- Working with the team to embed knowledge and train existing team members so that they can continue the operational running of our cloud infrastructure.
- Supporting and consulting with stakeholders.
- Driving engineering excellence by fostering modern engineering
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience deploying and managing GCP infrastructure using Terraform or similar infrastructure as code services.
- A strong understanding of managing GCP security and secrets and applying best practices in Public Cloud security.
- Demonstrable experience deploying virtual machines in a Public Cloud environment as well as deploying Docker containers to Kubernetes clusters.
- A good understanding of CI/CD, preferably using GitHub Actions.
- Confident with YAML, Python and Shell Scripting
- Monitoring skills for both performance monitoring and cost monitoring.
- Practical understanding of financial management in the cloud and FinOps concepts.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge of micro-service architecture and APIs
- Experience with cloud data warehouses, preferably with Google BigQuery
- Experience with Active Directory (AD) Authentication and Integration
- Experience of monitoring tools such as Splunk and Datadog
- Understanding of code quality & security gates (e.g., Sonarqube)
- Azure Cloud experience
Why us?
Billing Finance helps people with non-standard credit profiles gain access to vehicle finance. We are entering an exciting phase of transformation and as a small company, this role will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to work across the whole customer journey cycle, and to directly see the impacts that they made.