Cloud Data Platform Engineer

XPT Software; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and deliver scalable data and platform services. You will build reusable components and tooling on top of GCP, create data warehouse‑ready pipelines, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices across engineering teams.

You will collaborate on security, access management, networking, monitoring, and on-boarding teams to platform services, ensuring reliable, observable deployments and robust automation.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience in Python and setting up data warehouse framework preferably in native GCP tools.
• CI/CD: Proven, hands‑on experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch, not just operating existing ones. Must have set up trigger configuration, branch protection, environment promotion gates, and rollback strategies end-to-end (Cloud Build, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Framework Development: Demonstrated experience designing and building platform frameworks from the ground up, reusable components, shared libraries, and templated tooling that engineering teams build on top of
• IaC: Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
• GCP: Working knowledge of core GCP services, Cloud Composer (Airflow), BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run/Functions, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager
• Observability: Experience with Dynatrace or equivalent monitoring platforms; ability to set up alerting, dashboards, and pipeline health checks
• Platform Support: Experience onboarding teams onto platform services including security scanning, access management, and network connectivity/firewall configuration

Skills

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Framework development

IaC

GCP

Observability

Platform support

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Composer (Airflow)

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Cloud Run/Functions

Artifact Registry

Secret Manager

Dynatrace

GitLab CI

Cloud Build

SFTP

Kafka

Confluent Kafka

Job description

XPT Software in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and deliver scalable data and platform services. You will build reusable components and tooling on top of GCP, create data warehouse‑ready pipelines, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices across engineering teams.

You will collaborate on security, access management, networking, monitoring, and on-boarding teams to platform services, ensuring reliable, observable deployments and robust automation.