Cloud Engineer – Public Cloud (GCP)

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Are you passionate about building and operating resilient, secure public cloud platforms and enabling large‑scale digital transformation through automation and engineering excellence?

We have a great opportunity for you - Cloud Engineer – Public Cloud!

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Be part of an exciting and collaborative engineering environment where you are challenged every day.
• Grow your career while working with leading public cloud technologies and platforms.
• Build strong relationships with a diverse range of technical and business stakeholders.

The Role

As a Cloud Engineer – Public Cloud, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating scalable, resilient, and secure public cloud platforms. You will support the evolution of application and data hosting environments into a hybrid, multi‑cloud ecosystem, primarily leveraging AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Working within a platform engineering and site reliability mindset, you will adopt a “you build it, you run it” approach, taking ownership of the cloud services you deliver and ensuring operational excellence across reliability, availability, and performance.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage core public cloud infrastructure and services across AWS and GCP, including compute, storage, networking, security, and identity services.
• Develop, maintain, and optimise cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, creating reusable modules and standardised blueprints.
• Automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Implement and manage containerisation and orchestration platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes‑based services.
• Take ownership of the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud platforms, applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions, and participate in on‑call support to ensure rapid incident response.
• Apply cloud security best practices and ensure compliance with organisational, industry, and regulatory standards.
• Integrate cloud infrastructure provisioning and operations into CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with development teams.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for cloud architectures, configurations, and operational procedures.
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring of junior engineers within the team.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Proven experience working as a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer at a mid‑level or senior level.
• Strong hands‑on experience with public cloud platforms, particularly AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code approaches and tools, including Terraform and native cloud provisioning services.
• Knowledge of automation and scripting using languages such as Python or Go.
• Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Public cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent.
• Experience with serverless computing technologies.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL database services in the cloud.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in multi‑cloud environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps principles and tooling.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

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We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.

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