GCP Test Engineer

Role: GCP Test Engineer
Contract: 12 months initially
Rate: £400/day (Outside IR35)
Start Date: ASAP
Location: London (3 days onsite)
Clearance: Active SC or DV clearance required (UK national, DV eligible)

Overview
We're seeking a GCP Test Engineer to support testing and assurance of secure cloud platforms within a government transformation programme. The role focuses on validating cloud-native services, infrastructure, and integrations in restricted, high-assurance environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Support testing and assurance of cloud-hosted and cloud-native platforms
• Validate infrastructure, deployments, configurations, and integrations
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
• Support integration, regression, resilience, and operational readiness testing
• Analyse defects, risks, and system issues in complex environments
• Work closely with DevSecOps, platform engineers, and architects
• Contribute to test standards, tooling, and continuous improvement
• Support API and service-level testing across cloud platforms

Required Experience

• Experience as a Test Engineer/Cloud Test Engineer/Platform Test Engineer
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices
• Experience with integration, infrastructure, and API testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing approaches
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure-as-Code (eg Terraform)
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments (government preferred)
• Ability to analyse defects and support root cause analysis

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to Google Distributed Cloud or air-gapped environments
• Experience with automation frameworks or Scripting (eg Python)
• Performance, resilience, or security testing experience
• Cloud or testing certifications
• Previous government/defence programme experience

Clearance
Must hold active SC or DV clearance. Must be UK national and DV eligible.