Google Data Engineer GCP

This role is responsible for building and scaling the massive reliable data infrastructure that powers critical decisions product features and advanced analytics across our organizationimpacting billions of users daily. As a Data Engineer you will be a core architect and builder of our next-generation data pipelines transforming raw high-volume data into structured actionable insights.

You will design construct implement and rigorously manage end-to-end data processing systems focusing on robustness efficiency security and high throughput. Your challenge will be to translate complex ambiguous business requirements from product managers and data scientists into scalable fault-tolerant solutions using cutting-edge Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies. This includes deep involvement with services like BigQuery Dataflow Cloud Composer and Pub/Sub.

Your contributions will be instrumental in enabling data-driven optimization across areas such as product development machine learning model training and operational efficiency making you a vital partner in Googles ongoing innovation. Were looking for an engineer ready to tackle petabyte-scale data challenges and champion data quality across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Design and Build: Develop test and maintain scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT) using technologies like Dataflow (Apache Beam) Composer (Apache Airflow) and BigQuery.
• Infrastructure Management: Architect and optimize data models within BigQuery for performance and cost efficiency supporting high-volume analytical workloads.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Data Scientists Analysts and Software Engineers to understand data needs and ensure data quality integrity and security across all platforms.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor and troubleshoot production data systems implementing best practices for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of data pipelines.
• Innovation: Explore and recommend new data technologies and cloud services to enhance data architecture and governance.

Qualifications :

• Strong background and experience in Google (GCP) along with a background as a Data Engineer.
• Experience with real-time streaming data processing using technologies like Pub/Sub and Dataflow Streaming.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Deep understanding of DataOps principles and automated testing for data quality.
• GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification is a plus.

Additional Information :

• Previous experience in a similar role as a Cloud Engineer developing implementing or managing secure Google Cloud solutions at an enterprise level 
• Previous hands on Google Cloud experience 
• Previous experience of working on Federal Government projects
• Previous experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform at an advanced level
• Ability to script in at least one of the following languages: Python Bash
• Applied knowledge of CI/CD concepts and deployment of platform solutions
• Solutions experience leveraging GCP-based core services such as Compute Engine App Engine Kubernetes Engine Cloud Storage BigQuery Pub/Sub etc.
• Be well-versed in networking concepts including virtual private clouds (VPCs) subnets load balancing firewalls and DNS
• Experience designing secure and scalable network architectures on Google Cloud
• Security-focused with a deep understanding of cloud security principles threats and mitigation techniques
• Hold one more of the following Professional Level Google Cloud certifications: Cloud Architect Cloud DevOps Engineer Cloud Developer or other professional-level Google Cloud certifications

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint industry and partner training programs special interest groups and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we are dedicated to attracting retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

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Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process including probity and police checks

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time