Lead Cloud Engineer - Principal GCP & AI Engineer
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Lead Cloud Engineer
Contract | £800 per Day
Google Cloud | Platform Engineering | AI/Agentic Infrastructure | iGaming
We’re partnering with a leading technology consultancy to appoint an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer for a high-profile engagement within the iGaming sector.
This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role combining cloud platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering and AI infrastructure.
The Opportunity
As Lead Cloud Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the technical direction of a complex client engagement, working closely with senior engineering stakeholders to define standards, challenge existing approaches and ensure successful delivery.
You’ll design and build modern Google Cloud platform foundations while also developing the infrastructure required to deploy and operate AI models and agents securely at scale.
Key Responsibilities
You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering cloud and AI platform capability by:
Owning the technical direction of a client engagement and leading the engineers responsible for delivery. Defining engineering standards across automation, testing, documentation, security and operational readiness. Designing and building Google Cloud landing zones and platform foundations, including project structures, Shared VPCs and Identity and Access Management. Ensuring infrastructure, configuration and platform changes are managed as code. Contributing to technical proposals, pre-sales scoping and architecture reviews with clients.
About You
You’ll be a senior Cloud or Platform Engineer with a strong combination of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, software engineering, SRE, data engineering and production AI experience.
The ideal profile will demonstrate a hybrid skill set across approximately 40% Cloud/Platform/SRE, 30% Software Engineering & AI and 30% Data Engineering, with security, governance, observability and cost management embedded throughout.
You will also have:
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Advanced experience with Google Cloud Platform. Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform, with exposure to tools such as Infrastructure Manager, Config Connector or Helm. Strong knowledge of clusters, nodes, pods, networking, storage, admission control, multi-tenancy and upgrades. Deep networking expertise A strong FinOps and cost-optimisation mindset.
Software Engineering, AI & Agentic Platforms
Experience building shared platform capability supporting multiple agents, including identity, logging, guardrails, budget enforcement and governed model access. Experience developing automation or custom AI agents using Go, Python or Node.js. Experience with model evaluation, versioning, latency and cost controls, explainability and human-in-the-loop workflows. Exposure to platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Studio or LangChain would be beneficial.
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