Lead GCP Engineer- Defence Sector (MOD) chez Qodea

Location: Corsham, UK (Onsite, 5 days per week) 

Clearance: This role requires all candidates to have an active DV clearance. 

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you’ll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We’re driven by ideas and powered by our people. This role sits within our sister consultancy, tmc3.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Lead GCP Engineer with current Developed Vetting (DV) clearance to lead and support this project with the Ministry of Defence in Corsham. This is a hands-on leadership role, responsible not only for architecting and implementing secure Google Cloud Platform environments but also for mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and ensuring delivery across critical defence programmes.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, build, and optimisation of secure GCP platforms in line with MOD standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of cloud engineers within tmc3
• Define best practices, patterns, and standards for GCP deployments and security compliance.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) across engineering teams.
• Partner with MOD stakeholders to shape cloud strategy and support migrations to GCP.
• Oversee incident management, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and present solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, securely, and aligned with MOD priorities.

Requirements

What You’ll Bring

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Active DV clearance (required).
• Proven track record as a Senior or Lead Cloud Engineer, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on leadership experience, including mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• In-depth knowledge of GCP services across compute, networking, storage, and identity/security.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
  Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working in secure/regulated sectors.
  
  

Desirable:

• GCP certifications (Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud and containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Prior defence sector or government programme experience in a leadership capacity.

How You’ll Grow: 

• Clear career progression opportunities within our career framework.
• Cross-skilling and internal mobility across business areas.
• Access to dedicated training, certifications, and professional membership.

Benefits

Financial:

• Competitive base salary.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• 4 x annual salary Death in Service coverage from day one.
• Employee referral scheme.

Health and Wellbeing:

• Private medical insurance from day one.
• Help@Hand app: access to remote GPs, second opinions, mental health support, and physiotherapy.
• EAP service
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Time Off and Flexibility:

• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• An extra paid day off for your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Market-leading parental leave.
• Sabbatical leave (after five years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).

Development and Recognition:

• Industry-recognised training and certifications.
• Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards

Extra Perks:

• Regular company events.
• Tech Scheme.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement
At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at [email protected] or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.