Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer - London

Salary: £160,000 - 200,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field such as Computer Networking, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience automating infrastructure provisioning, developer operations, or continuous integration, delivery, designing, building, and deploying cloud-based solution architectures.
• Experience with physical and virtual infrastructure, operating systems, or virtualization.
• Experience in scripting and development languages such as Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
• Experience in either Linux, Docker, Kubernetes technologies, or Windows and Active Directory environments.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.
• Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Build, configure, and deploy new compute, network, storage, and specialist security infrastructure, ensuring correct configuration and bringing it into service in line with standard playbooks from Google product teams.
• Resolve profile escalations and issues, improve the customer experience, and drive initiatives.
• Manage the health and performance of the environment using observability tools.
• Carry out maintenance and updates to roll out new features and keep the platform secure.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response escalation within response and on-site Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Provide technical implementation support in customer environments, including guidance on implementation and feasibility of cross-product integrations.
• Automate common tasks, manage incidents, and conduct blameless retrospectives.
• Troubleshoot technical problems using debugging, networking, system administration, and coding/scripting skills.
• Update playbooks to support the UK team and similar teams around the world.
• Work with local support staff and reach back into Google product teams for help where needed.
• Help drive the success of Google Cloud by understanding and advocating customer issues.

Technologies:

• Active Directory
• Bash
• Cloud
• Docker
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• Python
• Security
• Windows
• Ansible
• DevOps
• Jenkins
• Mesos
• OpenStack
• Puppet
• Unix

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We are the Google Public Sector Technical Delivery and Operations team, delivering, operating, and securing private cloud services for customers with exceptionally high security requirements. We provide the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of public cloud in a private cloud environment, and we operate these deployments for our most critical customers while working closely with Google product teams to continually improve our technology. This role is part of a new UK-focused team supporting our most critical customers. The office location can be London or one of our satellite sites in Wiltshire or Hampshire, and this is an on-site position requiring a standard five-day-per-week schedule in the office. The role may involve non-standard work hours and participation in an on-call rotation.

last updated 36 week of 2026