GCP Platform Engineer

4 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Sos Recruitment Full time

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 organisation's 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:

  • 4–6 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

Apply now or contact SOS Recruitment on for a confidential discussion.

SOS Recruitment is committed to workplace diversity and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, women, carers, culturally and linguistically diverse applicants, people of diverse religious beliefs, and the LGBTIQ+ community.

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