Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer

Position Title: Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer Location: Remote (US-based required; must reside/work within the United States)Allocation: 0.5 FTE (Months 14) / 0.25 FTE (Month 5)  Total Hours: 360 hours Required Certification (Must possess at least ONE):Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer ORGoogle Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer Job Description: 

• We are seeking a Cloud DevOps & Governance Engineer to support the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Platform Refinement initiative for the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). This role is responsible for provisioning core data infrastructure via Terraform establishing CI/CD deployment pipelines configuring Cloud Monitoring and alert frameworks and enforcing GCP security and Dataplex governance controls.

• Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage all new GCP infrastructure (Cloud Composer BigQuery GCS landing zones Pub/Sub Dataplex DLP) using Terraform stored in the clients GitHub repositories

• CI/CD & Automation: Design build and maintain CI/CD promotion patterns across DEV TEST and PROD environments for Airflow DAGs Data Fusion pipelines Dataform models BigQuery objects and monitoring configurations in alignment with client guidelines.

• Data Governance & Security: Deploy Dataplex discovery and profiling scans configure Cloud DLP inspection templates for sensitive PII and enforce least-privilege IAM roles service account isolation secrets management and encryption standards

• Observability & Monitoring: Implement Cloud Monitoring alert policies and central dashboards for job failures long-running processes schema drift and reconciliation mismatches.

• Environment Isolation: Ensure complete pipeline service account and environment isolation so that operations in one program domain do not cross-impact another.

Required Skills:

• 5 years of Cloud DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Data Governance experience.

• 3 years of dedicated experience writing modularizing and maintaining Terraform scripts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Technical Expertise:

• Hands-on proficiency with GCP Core Services: Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow) BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataform Dataplex Cloud DLP Cloud Monitoring Pub/Sub and Cloud IAMcite: 1 5.

• Strong expertise in GitHub CI/CD pipelines automated deployment workflows and multi-environment (DEV/TEST/PROD) code promotion standards.

Required Skills:

Cloud DevOpsGovernance EngineerGCP Certification