GCP Specialist (P/T Contract – hourly rates)

Are you an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specialist?

Ready to join our team at WNPL on a casual contract basis?

Possiblity to work with existing job.

Youll lead the evaluation and transformation of existing enterprise cloud setup of our clients, driving improvements in availability, scalability, security, and infrastructure automation.

Experience: 4 - 15 Years

Salary: Good hourly rates

• Must have excellent oralEnglishcommunication skills to interact with international clients
• Immediate joining available.
• Work with Big Data, AI/ML project teams

About the role

Youll work independently to assess client GCP environments, recommend improvements, and implement changes safely.Doing sovia Infrastructure as Code where possiblewould be ideal. Youll also advise on infra impacts for new software systems WNPL is developing.

What youll do

• Use your exceptional GCP skills to assess current-state GCP setups (networking, security, reliability, cost) and deliver clear improvement plans.
• Optional: Implement and maintain IaC (Terraform, etc.) across projects; establish reusable modules and guardrails.
• Design/modify architectures using GCP services (e.g., VPC, subnets, Cloud NAT, Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, IAM, Service Accounts, Secrets Manager).
• Build and run workloads onGKEand/orCompute Engine; containerise where sensible; tune autoscaling.
• ConfigureCloud SQL / Spanner / Memorystore / BigQueryas relevant; backup/restore, HA/DR patterns.
• Set up CI/CD (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or similar) with policy checks and environment promotion.
• Implement monitoring/alerting withCloud Monitoring & Logging; SLOs/error budgets where appropriate.
• Harden security (SCC, IAM least-privilege, org policies, VPC-SC, private access) and advise on compliance.
• Optimise costs (rightsizing, committed use/Autopilot, storage lifecycle, data egress patterns).
• Write concise runbooks, diagrams, and change notes clients can trust.

What youll bring (must-haves)

• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure with 3+ on GCP.
• Optional: Strong IaC (modules, workspaces, state management, pipelines); comfortable with Git workflows.
• Deep knowledge of: VPC design, routing/NAT, load balancing, IAM, GKE/containers, Linux fundamentals.
• Experience introducing controls: org policies, folder/project structure, billing budgets/alerts, SCC.
• Proven ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and deliver safely in regulated/enterprise contexts.
• Excellent English oral communication skills.

Nice to have

• AWS familiarity and migration/portability experience.
• Windows Server + IIS basics (for hybrid client estates), and/or database administration exposure.
• SRE practices (SLOs, incident response, post-incident review).
• Certs (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer) are welcome but not required.

Engagement & logistics

• Mode:Remote, part-time, on-demand.
• Hours:Flexible; occasional short-notice work during client change windows.
• Compliance:Confidentiality and IP assignment required.