GCP Platform Engineer

Job Description

Position Title: GCP Platform Engineer
Employment Type: Labour hire (Approx. 6 months with potential to extend)
Location: Melbourne or Bendigo
Hourly Pay Rate: $800 $900 per day (incl. 12% super)

ABOUT THE ROLE

The GCP Platform Engineer will be responsible for building maintaining and enhancing key components of the organisations cloud-based data platform. This role is suited to an engineer with hands-on experience across GCP automation and data pipeline engineering. The successful candidate will contribute to scalable platform design improved data workflows and seamless integration across systems and tools.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design build and maintain infrastructure components supporting the GCP data platform

• Develop enhance and optimise data pipeline frameworks accelerators and supporting tools

• Integrate the GCP data platform with internal systems and third-party tools

• Work closely with data engineers architects and operations teams to ensure cohesive and high-performing platform capabilities

• Implement infrastructure-as-code through Terraform to automate deployments and environment management

• Assist with troubleshooting performance optimisation and platform stability

• Contribute to engineering standards documentation and continuous improvement initiatives

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 46 years engineering experience including minimum 2 years hands-on GCP experience

• Strong capability across key GCP services: BigQuery Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cloud Run

• Experience with Dbt for data transformations and modelling

• Proficiency in Python for automation scripting and pipeline development

• Practical experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code

• Background as a data platform engineer working with modern cloud environments

Desirable:

• Experience with Qlik CDC or other change data capture tools

• Knowledge of Argo Workflows for orchestration

• Experience with Control-M workload automation

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts

• Exposure to Collibra (data governance)

• Exposure to Experian data quality or enrichment tools

ELIGIBILITY

• Full Australian working rights required

• Immediate or near-immediate availability preferred

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