Job Description – Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer Contract – Statement of Work Outside IR35 (confirmed by Government website employment check) Date: 20 th 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.